NASA Historical Data Book: Volume VII: NASA Launch Systems, Space Transportation/Human Spaceflight, and Space Science 1989-1998 (Part 1) (The NASA History Series) - Softcover

Administration, National Aeronautics And Space; Rumerman, Judy A.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1501079735 ISBN 13: 9781501079733

Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2014

Synopsis

This volume of the NASA Historical Data Book is the seventh in the series that describes NASA’s programs and projects. Covering the years 1989 through 1998, it includes the areas of launch systems, human spaceflight, and space science, continuing the volumes that addressed these topics during NASA’s previous decades. Each chapter presents information, much of it statistical, addressing funding, management, and details of programs and missions. This decade, which followed the Agency’s return to flight after the Challenger accident, was especially productive. Upgraded expendable launch vehicles sent missions into Earth orbit and toward the outer reaches of space; 66 Space Shuttle missions were successfully launched; the Space Station received its first components; and 30 space science missions, most of which met their scientific goals, began returning scientific data to Earth. These events took place in an environment both of international cooperation and one in which NASA learned to make the best use possible of its resources. A forthcoming companion volume will describe NASA’s Earth science missions; aeronautics and space research activities; tracking and space operations; facilities; resources; and personnel areas.

Edition details

• Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• Publication date: 2014
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1501079735
• ISBN 13: 9781501079733
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 594