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Topic: Space Shuttle: History of the Natl Space Transportation System (Dennis Jenkins)
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Tom
Member Posts: 1244
From: New York
Registered: Nov 2000
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posted 04-08-2001 07:47 AM
   
Did anyone hear about a new book coming out to coincide with the 20th anniversary of the Space Shuttle's first mission?Supposedly, it covers the first 100 flights flown by the shuttle. |
tegwilym
Member Posts: 2283
From: Renton, WA USA
Registered: Jan 2000
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posted 04-08-2001 02:37 PM
You are probably thinking of Space Shuttle: The History of the National Space Transportation System The First 100 Missions by Dennis Jenkins. I don't think it has been released yet, but I have my order in for it already! |
Tom
Member Posts: 1244
From: New York
Registered: Nov 2000
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posted 04-08-2001 05:10 PM
Anyone who is interested in the Space Shuttle program should get a copy of Dennis Jenkins new book called "Space Shuttle-The First 100 Missions". Everything you wanted to know (or review) about the shuttle is there. It has many pictures including a section of color photos. All 100 mission patches are shown in color as well as the patches of missions that were scheduled to fly in 1986 after Challenger. Well worth the $35. |
music_space
Member Posts: 1050
From: Canada
Registered: Jul 2001
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posted 03-10-2011 08:50 AM
To accompany the last flights of the Shuttle, I'm reading again Shuttle-related books, including Dennis Jenkins' "Space Shuttle - The History of Developing the National Space Transportatation System - The Beginning through STS-75".Remarkably self-published in 1996 as a quality glazed-paper, hard-cover book (I got it at the Skunkworks boutique in 1999 for 40$), the genesis of the STS is very well covered, with comprehensive reviews of all early vehicular concepts technologically important for the STS: lifting body programs, thermal protection test programs, partially- and totally-recoverable concepts, etc. Jenkins is obviously engineering-inclined. Do we know more about him? Excellent book! |
GoesTo11
Member Posts: 956
From: Denver, CO USA
Registered: Jun 2004
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posted 09-08-2011 09:48 PM
Thought I'd re-visit this topic. Does anyone know if a final revision of Jenkins' (in my opinion definitive) shuttle book is still on track, who the publisher/distributor might be, or when we might see it? |
X-Plane Fan
Member Posts: 117
From: CA, USA
Registered: Jul 2007
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posted 09-27-2011 08:55 AM
Jenkins shuttle history is still on track. It is expected to be a 3 volume set which should be available not long after the last orbiter is delivered to its museum. He wants to include the delivery of each, just to make the books complete. |
GoesTo11
Member Posts: 956
From: Denver, CO USA
Registered: Jun 2004
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posted 09-27-2011 10:55 AM
Well, that's rather mixed news. I'm excited that the final edition is still in the works (as a 3-volume set, no less!), but I'm a bit ambivalent about Dennis' plans to publish after the museum delivery of the last orbiter.
At the least, this means we may not see it for years yet. I don't want to lurch off-topic, so I'll just say that I simply don't have much faith that all this (museum construction, delivery and display) is going to come off smoothly or expeditiously. While Dennis' desire to "close the circle" is admirable, I hope he's not too wedded to the idea. |
kyra
Member Posts: 503
From: Louisville CO US
Registered: Aug 2003
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posted 10-01-2011 09:01 AM
Perhaps he set the timing to write and thoroughly proof check the two new volumes of material. This work has earned the descriptor of "definitive". The only shortfall ever mentioned was that the mission by mission descriptions were not developed as much as they could have been (and of course more color mission pics!). |
herranzc
Member Posts: 10
From: Madrid, Spain
Registered: Sep 2003
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posted 10-06-2011 04:00 AM
It might be a good idea for the publishers to issue the three volumes as a series as the content is delivered by Jenkins, and so the third one could wait to include everything that is happening at the end of the program (not just the museum part, but also the dismantling of launch pads and other ground infrastructure, for example). It would make a great companion series to the no less expected three part series 'The Apollo Program: 3000 Days to the Moon' by David Baker. |
sev8n
Member Posts: 51
From: Dallas TX USA
Registered: Jul 2012
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posted 03-03-2013 07:02 PM
quote:
Originally posted by X-Plane Fan:
Jenkins shuttle history is still on track.
Any updates on a publication date? |
GoesTo11
Member Posts: 956
From: Denver, CO USA
Registered: Jun 2004
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posted 03-03-2013 09:29 PM
Seconded. Would really like to know where Dennis is at with this. |
cspg
Member Posts: 3880
From: Geneva, Switzerland
Registered: May 2006
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posted 03-04-2013 09:11 AM
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Originally posted by GoesTo11:
Seconded. Would really like to know where Dennis is at with this.
All you needed was to ask!  From Dennis Jenkins (3/4/2013): I am busily working on the new book, but it is taking longer than expected primarily because I am constantly finding more things I want to cover, and real-life keeps getting in the way (read, making a living). I am still hoping to have it available sometime this year (probably later rather than sooner), but I am more concerned with getting it correct than meeting any particular schedule. Current planning shows a three-volume boxed set totaling about 1,500 pages, so it will not be cheap. But hopefully it will be interesting to everybody... |
sev8n
Member Posts: 51
From: Dallas TX USA
Registered: Jul 2012
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posted 03-05-2013 12:09 PM
As many of you probably know, there have been three publications of this book, the first covering through flight 50, the second through flight 75, and the third through flight 100. What many may not know is that Mr Jenkins wrote an earlier edition covering through flight 25 (51-L). It was published by Aerofax as Datagraph 5 - Rockwell International Space Shuttle . ISBN is 0-942548-15-9, 72 pages in length. |
nasamad
Member Posts: 1873
From: Essex, UK
Registered: Jul 2001
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posted 03-05-2013 03:58 PM
If you can find it, its worth getting the publication above. A very nice little addition to my collection when I got it. |
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