Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Science. Subcommittee on Space and AeronauticsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 100
Book Description
Space Shuttle and Space Launch Initiative
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Science. Subcommittee on Space and AeronauticsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 100
Book Description
Space Launch Initiative
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Science. Subcommittee on Space and AeronauticsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 104
Book Description
107-2 Hearing: Space Shuttle And Space Launch Initiative, Serial No. 107-79, April 18, 2002, *.
Author: SPACE SHUTTLE AND SPACE LAUNCH INITIATIVE... HEARING... SERIAL NO. 107-79... COMMITTEE ON SCIENCE, HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES... 107TH CONGRES.
Author: Space Transportation
Author: U S Government Accountability Office (GPublisher: BiblioGov
ISBN: 9781289027803
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 28
Book Description
In 2001, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) began undertaking a new effort--the Space Launch Initiative (SLI)--to develop a new generation of space transportation vehicles. SLI is expected to result in development of the second generation of reusable launch vehicles, the space shuttle being the first generation. NASA plans to define basic requirements for its second-generation reusable launch vehicle--that is, what the crew size will be, what the payload capacity will be, and what designs or architectures are worth pursuing--by November 2002. However, considerable challenges must be addressed before NASA can accomplish this. First, NASA has to complete a reassessment of its overall space transportation plans. Second, NASA is currently reassessing the future of the International Space Station. The decisions it will make as part of this evaluation, such as how many crew will operate the station, will have a dramatic impact on NASA's requirements for a second-generation vehicle. Third, NASA needs to decide whether the SLI program will be developed jointly with the Department of Defense (DOD) and, if so, how can it accommodate DOD's requirements for a reusable launch vehicle. Until NASA finalizes its basic requirements for SLI, it cannot implement management controls that are essential to predicting what the total costs of the program will be and to minimizing the risks with NASA's planned initial investment of $4.8 billion. It is important for NASA to implement management controls for SLI as soon as possible, so that it can provide its managers and Congress with the information needed to ensure that the program is on track and able to meet expectations.
Space Shuttle and Space Launch Initiative
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Science. Subcommittee on Space and AeronauticsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 96
Book Description
DEVM SPACE SHUTTLE
Author: Heppenheimer TaPublisher: Smithsonian
ISBN: 9781588340092
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Single Stage to Orbit
Author: Andrew J. ButricaPublisher: JHU Press
ISBN: 080188134X
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 285
Book Description
Winner of the Michael C. Robinson Prize for Historical Analysis given by the National Council on Public History While the glories and tragedies of the space shuttle make headlines and move the nation, the story of the shuttle forms an inseparabe part of a lesser-known but no less important drama—the search for a reusable single-stage-to-orbit rocket. Here an award-winning student of space science, Andrew J. Butrica, examines the long and tangled history of this ambitious concept, from it first glimmerings in the 1920s, when technicians dismissed it as unfeasible, to its highly expensive heyday in the midst of the Cold War, when conservative-backed government programs struggled to produce an operational flight vehicle. Butrica finds a blending of far-sighted engineering and heavy-handed politics. To the first and oldest idea—that of the reusable rocket-powered single-stage-to-orbit vehicle—planners who belonged to what President Eisenhower referred to as the military-industrial complex.added experimental ("X"), "aircraft-like" capabilties and, eventually, a "faster, cheaper, smaller" managerial approach. Single Stage to Orbit traces the interplay of technology, corporate interest, and politics, a combination that well served the conservative space agenda and ultimately triumphed—not in the realization of inexpensive, reliable space transport—but in a vision of space militarization and commercialization that would appear settled United States policy in the early twenty-first century.
The Space Shuttle Program
Author: Davide SivolellaPublisher: Springer
ISBN: 3319549464
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 369
Book Description
This book tells the story of the Space Shuttle in its many different roles as orbital launch platform, orbital workshop, and science and technology laboratory. It focuses on the technology designed and developed to support the missions of the Space Shuttle program. Each mission is examined, from both the technical and managerial viewpoints. Although outwardly identical, the capabilities of the orbiters in the late years of the program were quite different from those in 1981. Sivolella traces the various improvements and modifications made to the shuttle over the years as part of each mission story. Technically accurate but with a pleasing narrative style and simple explanations of complex engineering concepts, the book provides details of many lesser known concepts, some developed but never flown, and commemorates the ingenuity of NASA and its partners in making each Space Shuttle mission push the boundaries of what we can accomplish in space.Using press kits, original papers, newspaper and magazine articles, memoirs and interviews, this book provides the most up-to-date and comprehensive account available of the shuttle’s many missions and will refocus interest on a remarkable flying machine and space program that is often pushed to the background.
Upgrading the Space Shuttle
Author: National Research CouncilPublisher: National Academies Press
ISBN: 0309063825
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 82
Book Description
The space shuttle is a unique national resource. One of only two operating vehicles that carries humans into space, the space shuttle functions as a scientific laboratory and as a base for construction, repair, and salvage missions in low Earth orbit. It is also a heavy-lift launch vehicle (able to deliver more than 18,000 kg of payload to low Earth orbit) and the only current means of returning large payloads to Earth. Designed in the 1970s, the shuttle has frequently been upgraded to improve safety, cut operational costs, and add capability. Additional upgrades have been proposed-and some are under way-to combat obsolescence, further reduce operational costs, improve safety, and increase the ability of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to support the space station and other missions. In May 1998, NASA asked the National Research Council (NRC) to examine the agency's plans for further upgrades to the space shuttle system. The NRC was asked to assess NASA's method for evaluating and selecting upgrades and to conduct a top-level technical assessment of proposed upgrades.