NASA's First Space Shuttle Astronaut Selection [E-Book] : Redefining the Right Stuff / by David J. Shayler, Colin Burgess.
Unofficially they called themselves the TFNG, or the Thirty-Five New Guys. Officially, they were NASA's Group 8 astronauts, selected in January 1978 to train for orbital missions aboard the Space Shuttle. Prior to this time only pilots or scientists trained as pilots had been assigned to fly on...
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Personal Name(s): | Shayler, David J., author |
Burgess, Colin, author | |
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1st edition 2020. |
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Springer,
2020
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Physical Description: |
XXXIII, 589 pages 105 illustrations, 80 illustrations in color (online resource) |
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englisch |
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9783030457426 |
DOI: |
10.1007/978-3-030-45742-6 |
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Space Exploration
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- Authors' Preface
- Acknowledgements
- Foreword
- Dedication
- List of Abbreviations and acronyms
- Prologue
- Chapter 1: Expanding 'The Right Stuff'
- Chapter 2: Who could fly?
- Chapter 3: The new pilot astronauts
- Chapter 4: The first Mission Specialists
- Chapter 5: All Change in the Astronaut Office
- Chapter 6: Ascan pioneers
- Chapter 7: Silver Pin astronauts
- Chapter 8: Preparing to fly
- Chapter 9: NASA's All-Electric Flying Machine
- Chapter 10: The TFNG take wings
- Chapter 11: "Go at throttle up"
- Chapter 12: The final missions
- Chapter 13: Flying a desk
- Chapter 14: Reflections
- Chapter 15: The legacy
- Afterword
- Appendices
- Bibliography
- About the authors
- Other works by the authors
- Index.