The space shuttle
Subtitle: celebrating thirty years of NASA's first space plane
Publisher: MBI Pub. Co. and Zenith Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Minneapolis
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780760339411
Subjects: United States; TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / Military Science; TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / Aeronautics & Astronautics; United States. National Aeronautics and Space Administration; Space shuttles; SCIENCE / Astrophysics & Space Science; Space flights; History
Description: "This superbly designed and lavishly illustrated book marks a special moment in history: the final mission of the space shuttle. Noted space and science author Piers Bizony has put together a retrospective that covers all 134 space shuttle missions, including the final flight of the shuttle, which is scheduled for September 2010. In addition to covering every space shuttle mission, the book also covers the development and design of the space shuttle, as well as the technical specifications of the vehicle and details of its major assemblies and subassemblies. A full double-gatefold provides a large-scale technical drawing of the space shuttle"--