This book provides unique access to the story of how scientists were accepted into the American Space Programme, and reveals how, after four difficult decades, the role of the heroic test pilot astronaut has been replaced by men and women who are science orientated space explorers.
Product Properties
Year of Publication
2007
Table of Contents
The Wrong Stuff.- Scientists as Astronauts.- The Scientific Six.- School for Scientists.- The Excess Eleven.- "Flying Is Just Not My Cup of Tea".- A Geologist on the Moon.- Laboratories in the Sky.- Shuttling into Space.- The Long Wait.- Ending of Eras.- Science Officers on ISS.
Author
David J. Shayler
ISBN/ISSN
9780387218977
Binding
Paperback
Edition
1
Publisher
Springer
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