Before Lift-Off

The Making of a Space Shuttle Crew
Erscheinungsjahr 1987
ISBN: 978-0-8018-3524-7
Verlag: Johns Hopkins University Press

Buch, Englisch, 288 Seiten, Format (B × H): 163 mm x 236 mm, Gewicht: 553 g

Reihe: New Series in NASA History

Winner of the Eugene Emme Astronautical Literature Prize from the American Astronautical Society

For eight days in October 1984, seven men and women orbitied the Earth on Space Shuttle Mission 41-G. The mission has begun a year earlier; however, with the select of its crew. Before Lift-off is the extraordinary day-to-day story of these astronauts' training and flight-and is as close as most of us will ever come to flying on the space shuttle.

New Yorker writer Henry Cooper obtained unprecedented permission from NASA to follow the 41-G crew from its formation through the completion of its mission. He was even given access to the heart of the training program: the crew's sessions in the shuttle mision simulators.

More than a chronical of different phases in the astronauts' learning process, Before Lift-off tells the story of the bonding of these men and women. It would be Captain Robert Crippen's fourth space flight, his second command in six months, and Sally Ride's second shuttle voyage. For rookies Davida Leestra, Jon McBride, and Kathy Sullivan, and for two payload specialists, the experience would mark an initiation into the most elite groups-those people who have ventured into space.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Cooper, Henry S F

Cooper Jr., Henry S.F.

Fachgebiete

• Technische Wissenschaften Verkehrstechnik | Transportgewerbe Luft- und Raumfahrttechnik, Luftverkehr
• Technische Wissenschaften Sonstige Technologien | Angewandte Technik Weltraumforschung
• Naturwissenschaften Astronomie Astronomie: Allgemeines
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften: Allgemeines Geschichte der Naturwissenschaften, Formalen Wissenschaften & Technik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Illustrations
Foreword
Acknowledgments
Prologue
Chapter 1. October 4 and 5, 1984
Chapter 2. November 1983 and Earlier
Chapter 3. Week of January 23-27, 1984
Chapter 4. Week of February 27-March 2
Chapter 5. Week of April 16-20
Chapter 6. Week of June 11-15
Chapter 7. Week of July 23-27
Chapter 8. Week of September 3-7
Chapter 9. Week of September 18-21
Chapter 10. Fortnight of September 20-October 4
Chapter 11. Week of October 5-13
Chapter 12. October 13 and Afterward
Epilogue
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Cooper Jr., Henry S.F.
Henry S. F. Cooper is the author of seven other books about NASA and space exploration, including Before Liftoff, available from Johns Hopkins.

Henry S. F. Cooper Jr. (1933–2016) was the author of eight books about NASA and space exploration, including Thirteen: The Apollo Flight That Failed.