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Robert Pearlman
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Philip Clark and Dreamstone Publishing have turned to Kickstarter to crowdfund the release of "The Final Orbit" about the history of Orroral Valley Space Tracking Station and the end of manned spaceflight tracking.
This project aims to fund the editing, proofreading, image preparation, layout and other pre-press work on the book 'The Final Orbit – Apollo and Space Shuttle: Australia's Orroral Valley Space Tracking Station and the End of Ground-Based Manned Spaceflight Tracking' and then to fund the publishing, printing and promotion of the book.

The book will be produced in digital, paperback, hardcover, and limited-edition collectors' hardcover editions. Intended publication date is between late September and late November 2018.

We want this to be the most amazing book about the history of human space exploration that you have ever held in your hands.

Not only are there the stories of the people and the dramatic moments of tracking the Space Shuttle, but we have floor plans, equipment diagrams, recordings and transcripts of historic Shuttle transits, and more. Imagine immersing yourself in all of that, imagine sharing, with your children, what incredible things were achieved with such basic technology! This will be a book to treasure.

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The Final Orbit: Apollo and Space Shuttle: Australia's Orroral Valley Space Tracking Station and the End of Ground-based Manned Space Flight Tracking
by Philip Clark
This book provides a unique opportunity to look inside the world of manned space flight tracking through the eyes of a man who was at the heart of it for over twenty years. It combines the personal touch of a memoir with the presentation of a wealth of technical information, which is not available anywhere else.

What is presented here preserves history, and ensures that the remarkable achievements of the tracking of manned space flight are remembered.

Discover how manned spaceflights were tracked from ground stations after the closure of the Manned Space Flight Network in 1972, and gain an insight into how the tracking processes grew and evolved through a review of some early history of the field.

The book is extensively illustrated, with preserved documents as well as photographs from the history of the station.

  • Hardcover: 236 pages
  • Dreamstone Publishing (20 Feb. 2019)
  • ISBN-10: 0987256637
  • ISBN-13: 978-0987256638

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