Overview
- Tells the story of a grand space program that might have been enabled by the Space Shuttle but never was
- Provides examples of upgrades that would have enhanced the External Tank, Solid Rocket Boosters and Orbiter
- Illustrated with many technical drawings and pictures extracted from NASA technical papers
Part of the book series: Springer Praxis Books (PRAXIS)
Part of the book sub series: Space Exploration (SPACEE)
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Table of contents (12 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Davide Sivolella is an aerospace engineer living and working in the UK with experience in the airline and aircraft manufacturing industries.. As a child, Davide developed a fascination with all kinds of flying machines, especially those that travel above the atmosphere. In fact, this passion for astronautics led him to pursue a bachelor’s and master’s degrees in Aerospace Engineering from the Polytechnic of Turin (Italy). Born in July 1981, just a few months after the Columbia’s maiden flight, he developed a fondness for the Space Shuttle program. Eventually, this resulted in Springer-Praxis publishing in August 2013 his first book, To Orbit and Back Again: How the Space Shuttle Flew in Space. The book has been praised onnumerous outlets. A sequel entitled “The Space Shuttle Program: Technologies and Accomplishments” was released in 2017. This new book, “The Untold Stories of the Space Shuttle Program”, complements its predecessors by showing what the Space Shuttle could have achieved and how the Space Transportation System could have been further matured.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: The Untold Stories of the Space Shuttle Program
Book Subtitle: Unfulfilled Dreams and Missions that Never Flew
Authors: Davide Sivolella
Series Title: Springer Praxis Books
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-19653-9
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Physics and Astronomy, Physics and Astronomy (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2022
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-031-19652-2Published: 28 November 2022
eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-19653-9Published: 26 November 2022
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIII, 343
Number of Illustrations: 191 b/w illustrations, 22 illustrations in colour
Topics: Popular Science in Astronomy, Space Sciences (including Extraterrestrial Physics, Space Exploration and Astronautics), History of Technology