Into The Black: Electrifying True Story Of How First Flight Space Shuttle Nearly Ended In Disaster Rowland White Corgi Books Αγγλικά Βιβλία History

On 12Th April 1981 A Revolutionary New Spacecraft Blasted Off From Florida Her Maiden Flight Nasa’s Space Shuttle Columbia Was The Most Advanced Flying Machine Ever Built – High Watermark Of Post-War Aviation Development Direct Descendant Record-Breaking X-Planes Likes Which Chuck Yeager Had Tested In Skies Over Mojave Desert Winged Rocket Plane Size An Airliner Capable To And Back Before Being Made Ready Fly Again She World’s First Real Spaceship Board Were Men With Right Stuff Shuttle’s Commander Moonwalker John Young Already Veteran Five Spaceflights Alongside Him Pilot Bob Crippen Making His But Crip Taken By Agency After Cancellation Top Secret Military Station Programme 1969 Worked For Decade Never Crew Been So Well Prepared Their Mission Yet Less Than Hour Crippen’s Spectacular Departure Cape It Clear That All Not Tiles Designed Protect Blowtorch Burn Re-Entry Missing Heatshield If Damage Ship Too Great Astronauts Would Be Unable Return Safely Earth Neither They Nor Control Possessed Any Way Knowing Instead Nasa Turned National Reconnaissance Office Spy Hidden Deep Inside Pentagon Whose Very Existence Classified Help Nro Attempt Something Done Success Require Skill Pinpoint Timing Luck …Drawing Brand Interviews Engineers Archive Material Newly Declassified Documents Rowland White Bestselling Author Vulcan 607 Has Pieced Together Dramatic Untold Story Time Into Black Is Thrilling Race Against Gripping Stakes Cold-War Celebration Beyond State-Of-The-Art Hailed As One Seven Wonders World Rekindled Our Passion Spaceflight *With Foreword Astronaut Richard Truly*‘Beautifully Researched Written Tells True Complete Better It’s Told ’ Colonel Chris Hadfield Former Commander‘brilliantly Revealed Finely Tuned Magnificently Laid Bare Unknown Dangers Unseen Hazards … Once Read Forgotten ’Clive Cussler Σελίδες: 640 Διαστάσεις: 13 1X13 1Cm