عنوان

Come fly with us :

(Number (ISBN

149621224X

(Number (ISBN

1496212266

(Number (ISBN

9781496212245

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9781496212269

Erroneous ISBN

0803278926

Erroneous ISBN

9780803278929

Erroneous ISBN

9781496212252 (mobi)

Title Proper

Come fly with us :

General Material Designation

[Book]

Other Title Information

NASA's Payload Specialist Program /

First Statement of Responsibility

Melvin Croft and John Youskauskas ; foreword by Don Thomas.

Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.

Lincoln :

Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.

University of Nebraska Press,

Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.

[2019]

Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item

1 online resource (xviii, 430 pages) :

Other Physical Details

illustrations

Series Title

Outward odyssey : a people's history of spaceflight

Text of Note

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Text of Note

The genesis of the payload specialist -- Integrating the payload specialists -- Spacelab, a new era in spaceflight -- Mission to planet Earth -- Time to specialize -- The super mission -- Europe's coming out party -- Supersonic in a paper airplane -- The highest ground -- Space walker -- First passenger -- International goodwill -- The spaceman from Chilpancingo -- On the way to Disney World -- Walking through fire.

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Text of Note

Come Fly with Us is the story of an elite group of space travelers who flew as members of many space shuttle crews from pre-Challenger days to Columbia in 2003. Not part of the regular NASA astronaut corps, these professionals known as "payload specialists" came from a wide variety of backgrounds and were chosen for an equally wide variety of scientific, political, and national security reasons. Melvin Croft and John Youskauskas focus on this special fraternity of spacefarers and their individual reflections on living and working in space. Relatively unknown to the public and often flying only single missions, these payload specialists give the reader an unusual perspective on the experience of human spaceflight. The authors also bring to light NASA's struggle to integrate the wide-ranging personalities and professions of these men and women into the professional astronaut ranks.0 While Come Fly with Us relates the experiences of the payload specialists up to and including the Challenger tragedy, the authors also detail the later high-profile flights of a select few, including Barbara Morgan, John Glenn (who returned to space at the age of seventy-seven), and Ilan Ramon of Israel aboard Columbia on its final, fatal flight, STS-107.

Source for Acquisition/Subscription Address

JSTOR

Stock Number

22573/ctvc07qm1

United States.-- History.

Payloads (Aerospace engineering)-- United States-- History.

HISTORY-- United States-- 20th Century.

Payloads (Aerospace engineering)

TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING-- Engineering (General)

United States.

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HIS-- 036060

TEC-- 009000

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Edition

Class number

Book number

Croft, Melvin

Youskauskas, John

Date of Transaction

20200822131414.0

Cataloguing Rules (Descriptive Conventions))

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Electronic name

[Book]

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