Mission Control (inbunden)
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Inbunden (Hardback)
Språk
Engelska
Antal sidor
208
Utgivningsdatum
2015-09-30
Förlag
University Press of Florida
Illustrationer
14 black & white images
Dimensioner
240 x 165 x 20 mm
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449 g
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1
ISBN
9780813061504

Mission Control

Inventing the Groundwork of Spaceflight

av Michael Peter Johnson
Inbunden,  Engelska, 2015-09-30
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Brave astronauts, flaring rockets, and majestic launches are only one side of the story of spaceflight. Any mission to space depends on yearsif not decadesof work by thousands of dedicated individuals on the ground. These are the people whose voices offer a friendly link to Earth in the void of space, whose hands maneuver rovers across the face of planets, and whose skills guide astronauts home. This book is a long-overdue history of three major centers that have managed important missions since the dawn of the space age. In Mission Control, Michael Johnson explores the famous Johnson Space Center in Houston, the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, and the European Space Operations Centre in Darmstadt, Germanyeach a strategically designedmicro-environment responsible for the operation of spacecraft and the safety of passengers. Johnson explains the motivations behind the location of each center and their intricate design. He shows how the robotic spaceflight missions overseen in Pasadena and Darmstadt set these centers apart from Houston. He argues that the type of spacecraft and the missions they controllednot the nations they representeddefined how the centers developed, yet they played vital national roles as space technology became a battleground for international power struggles in the Cold War years and even after.
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"An enjoyable read for spaceflight enthusiasts."--CHOICE

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Michael Peter Johnson is former director of the Skylab Oral History Project.

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