Come Fly with Us: Nasa's Payload Specialist Program

ISBN-13: 9780803278929 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019 / 456 str.

Melvin Croft; John Youskauskas

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Tells the story of an elite group of space travellers who flew as members of many space shuttle crews from pre-Challenger days to Columbia in 2003. Not part of the regular NASA astronaut corps, these professionals known as ""payload specialists"" came from a wide variety of backgrounds and were chosen for a wide variety of scientific, political, and national security reasons.