Spacecraft Systems Engineering 3rd Edition
Contributors: Peter Fortescue (Editor); John Stark (Editor); Graham Swinerd (Editor)
Publisher: Wiley
Published: March 21, 2003
Language: eng
Number of pages: 704
ISBN-13: 9780471619512
First sentence: Man has only had the ability to operate spacecraft successfully since 1957, when the Russian Sputnik I was launched into orbit.