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The Space Shuttle

The Space Shuttle

Celebrating Thirty Years of NASA's First Space Plane

by Piers Bizony
Paperback
Publication Date: 25/03/2015

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Get a full retrospective of all 134 flights, every mission, of the space shuttle program.

This superbly designed and lavishly illustrated reissue of the best-selling hardcover book marks a special moment in history: the final mission of the space shuttle. Noted space and science author Piers Bizony's retrospective covers the entire space shuttle program that began in 1981 and ended in 2011.

Every space shuttle mission is detailed, including all flights of the Columbia, Challenger, Discovery, Atlantis, and Endeavour spacecraft. The book also covers the development and design of the orbiter, as well as the technical specifications of the vehicle and details of its major assemblies and subassemblies. A full double-gatefold provides a large-scale technical drawing of the space shuttle.

If you never got to watch the countdown clock in person during a space shuttle launch, The Space Shuttle is your chance to relive the history of America's first low Earth orbital spacecraft.

ISBN:
9780760347812
9780760347812
Category:
History of engineering & technology
Format:
Paperback
Publication Date:
25-03-2015
Language:
English
Publisher:
Quarto Publishing Group USA
Country of origin:
United States
Dimensions (mm):
254x228.6x19.05mm
Weight:
1.04kg
Piers Bizony

An experienced multimedia professional, Piers Bizony has written about science and the history of technology for a wide variety of publishers worldwide, and has undertaken major projects for the media departments at NASA and ESA.

An experienced multimedia professional, Piers Bizony has written about science and the history of technology for a wide variety of publishers worldwide, and has undertaken major projects for the media departments at NASA and ESA.

He has also gained substantial experience within the film and television industries. The author of Quarto's Space Shuttle: Celebrating Thirty Years, One Giant Leap: Apollo 11 Remembered, and New Space Frontiers, Bizony spent the last three years working closely with the family of Stanley Kubrick, in conjunction with Warner Bros. and fine art publishers Taschen on a large-format book about the making of 2001: A Space Odyssey.

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