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cspg
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posted 05-20-2017 11:46 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for cspg   Click Here to Email cspg     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
The World's First Spaceship: Shuttle
by Robert M. Powers
Join the crew of space shuttle Enterprise as they prepare to take the first step into the twenty-first century. Step aboard the world’s first reusable space vehicle with science writer Robert M. Powers for a cockpit view of a launch, orbit, re-entry, and return to earth. Preview the scheduled NASA shuttle missions in hundreds of line drawings and photographs of the crew at work in orbit.

The shuttle system is the key to unlocking the next era of technology and the forerunner of space transportation systems of tomorrow: The world's first spaceship, the Enterprise, is here!

  • Paperback: 256 pages
  • Stackpole Books (September 15, 2017)
  • ISBN-10: 0811737144
  • ISBN-13: 978-0811737142
Reprint of 1979 original.

jjknap
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posted 05-20-2017 04:36 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for jjknap   Click Here to Email jjknap     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
The paperback version was one of my earliest influences. This is the book that mentions two-week turn-around for the shuttle (based on NASA projections).

GoesTo11
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posted 05-20-2017 07:43 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for GoesTo11   Click Here to Email GoesTo11     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
Still have a whole shelf of '80s books, including this one.

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