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Truth, Lies, and O-Rings: Inside
the Space Shuttle Challenger Disaster (Hardcover) by
Allan J McDonald (Author), James R. Hansen (Author) (April
2009) On a cold January morning in 1986, NASA launched
the Space Shuttle Challenger, despite warnings against
doing so by many individuals, including Allan McDonald.
The fiery destruction of Challenger on live television
moments after launch remains an indelible image in the
nation's collective memory. Allan McDonald, a skilled
engineer and executive, relives the tragedy from where he
stood at Launch Control Center. As he fought to draw
attention to the real reasons behind the disaster, he was
the only one targeted for retribution by both NASA and his
employer, Morton Thiokol, Inc., makers of the shuttle's
solid rocket boosters. In this whistle-blowing yet
rigorous and fair-minded book, McDonald, with the
assistance of internationally distinguished aerospace
historian James R. Hansen, addresses all of the factors
that led to the accident, some of which were never
included in NASA's "Failure Team" report submitted to the
Presidential Commission. The book is the first look at the
Challenger tragedy and its aftermath from someone who was
on the inside, recognized the potential disaster and tried
to prevent it. It also addresses the early warnings of
very severe debris issues from the first two
post-Challenger flights, which ultimately resulted in the
loss of Columbia some fifteen years later. What they
didn't want you to know.
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Final Countdown:
NASA and the End of the Space Shuttle Program
by Pat Duggins (October 2007)
Many Americans' only memories
of their country's excursions into space are of the space
shuttle program, inaugurated with the launch of Columbia
in 1981. Twenty-two years later, Columbia's
disintegration over the Southwest played a major role in the
decision to end the program. NPR journalist Duggins reviews
the 25-year saga of the shuttle missions, some of which have
been shrouded in mystery, as astronauts took secret military
payloads into space; others received worldwide attention and
acclaim, as when the Hubble Space Telescope was restored to
20–20 vision.
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The
Story of the Space Shuttle by
David M. Harland (June 2004)
In spite of the Challenger
and Columbia disasters, the US Space Shuttle, which entered
service in 1981, remains the most successful spacecraft ever
developed. Conceived and designed as a reusable spacecraft to
provide cheap access to low Earth orbit, and to supersede
expendable launch vehicles, serving as the National Space
Transportation System, it now coexists with a new range of
commercial rockets. David Harland’s definitive work on the
Space Shuttle explains the scientific contribution the Space
Shuttle has made to the international space programme,
detailing missions to Mir, Hubble and more recently its role
in the assembly of the International Space Station.
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Comm
Check... : The Final Flight of Shuttle Columbia by
Michael Cabbage, William Harwood (January 2004)
On February 1, 2003,
the unthinkable happened. The space shuttle Columbia
disintegrated 37 miles above Texas, seven brave
astronauts were killed and America's space program,
always an eyeblink from disaster, suffered its second
catastrophic in-flight failure. Unlike the Challenger
disaster 17 years earlier, Columbia's destruction left
the nation one failure away from the potential
abandonment of human space exploration. Media coverage
in the immediate aftermath focused on the possible cause
of the disaster, and on the nation's grief. But the full
human story, and the shocking details of NASA's crucial
mistakes, have never been told -- until now.
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Space Shuttle: The First 20
Years -- The Astronauts' Experiences in Their Own Words
by Tony
Reichhardt (Editor)
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Columbia: The
First Space Shuttle by Heather Feldman
Released in August 2003 from Amazon.com,
Amazon.co.uk,
Amazon.ca
Columbia:
First Flight of the Space Shuttle by
Michael D. Cole
From Amazon.com,
Amazon.co.uk,
Bn.com
High Calling :
The Courageous Life and Faith of Space Shuttle Columbia Commander
Rick Husband by Evelyn Husband, Donna
Vanliere (January 2004)
From Amazon.com,
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Space Shuttle: The History of
the National Space Transportation System: The First 100
Missions
by Dennis R.
Jenkins
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Development of the
Space Shuttle, 1972-1981 (History of the Space Shuttle, Volume
2)
by T. A.
Heppenheimer
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Space Shuttle
Sts 1 - 5: The Nasa Mission Reports (Nasa Mission Reports)
by Robert Godwin
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Flying
Without Wings: Nasa Lifting Bodies and the Birth of the Space
Shuttle
by Milton O. Thompson, Curtis Peebles
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