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Space Shuttle Challenger : Ten Journeys into the Unknown / by Ben Evans

Chichester : Praxis Publishing Ltd, 2007

Online-Ressource (XVIII, 290 p, online resource)

Englisch

Pages:1 to 25; Pages:26 to 50; Pages:51 to 75; Pages:76 to 100; Pages:101 to 125; Pages:126 to 150; Pages:151 to 175; Pages:176 to 200; Pages:201 to 225; Pages:226 to 250; Pages:251 to 275; Pages:276 to 300; Pages:301 to 305

Description based upon print version of record

Druckausg.: Space Shuttle Challenger / Evans, Ben

978-0-387-49679-5

978-0-387-46355-1 (ISBN der Printausgabe)

550118454

OCoLC: 700002872     

OCoLC: 700002872 (aus SWB)     

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Digital Object Identifier (DOI): 10.1007/978-0-387-49679-5

ZO 8050  | ZO 8300  | ZO 8650      Ähnliche Literatur

QB1-991 ; TL795.5

520 ; 629.441

Basisklassifikation: 55.61 (Raumfahrzeuge)

bisacsh: JNF051040 ; bicssc: WNX ; bisacsh: SCI004000

*USA ; Space-shuttle      Zum Register

*Bemannte Raumfahrt ; Space-shuttle ; Columbia <Raumtransporter> ; Geschichte      Zum Register

LOC-SH: Science (General) ; Popular Science ; Astronomy ; Astronautics ; Engineering ; Astronomy ; Science (General)

Author's preface -- Acknowledgements -- The Geritol Bunch: The Development of the Shuttle, History of Challenger's Design, and Her First Mission -- Ride, Sally Ride: The Flight of STS 7 -- Weightlifters: the Flight of STS 8 -- A Heck of a Big Leap: the Flights of STS 41B, 41C, and 41G -- The Untouchables: the Flights of STS 51B, 51F, and 61A -- Don't Break our Airplane: the Disaster and Aftermath, including Rogers inquiry -- Appendix: Challenger's Planned Missions during 1986 and 1987 -- Glossary of Acronyms -- Bibliography -- Index

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Ironically, the loss of Challenger in January 1986 fired my interest in space exploration more than any other single event. I was nine years old. My parents were, at the time, midway through moving house and, luckily, the TV was one of the few domestic items still to be packed. I watched the entire horror unfold live on all of the network stations. Admittedly, my fascination with rockets and astronauts, stars and planets had begun several years earlier, but Challenger's destruction turned it from an occasional hobby to a fascination which has remained with me ever since. In September 1988, aged 11,1 came home from school to watch STS-26 return the Shuttle fleet to orbital operations. Five years later, I gave a speech on the STS-51L disaster to my teacher as part of my GCSE English assessment. Another decade passed and, now a teacher myself, I returned to my school one cold Monday morning to explain to my pupils what had happened to Challenger's sister ship, Columbia, a few days earlier. In some ways, the loss of Columbia affected me more deeply than Challenger