Before Lift-Off: The Making of a Space Shuttle Crew
Language: English
Published by Johns Hopkins, 1987
- First Edition
- Hardcover
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Before Lift-off. The Making of a Space Shuttle Crew. HSF Cooper. [1987] first edition; Johns Hopkins; very good to near fine jacketed hardcover. Illustrated. Crisp and handsome two-toned blue hardcover with gold text on spine; sharp and tidy with old price label at corner of flyleaf; light/even toning. Sharp/tight binding. Jacket is very good with very light handling wear.
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- Title
- Before Lift-Off: The Making of a Space Shuttle Crew
- Author
- Henry SF Cooper, Jr.
- Publisher
- Johns Hopkins
- Publication year
- 1987
- Condition
- Near Fine
- Dust jacket
- Very Good
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0801835240
- ISBN 13
- 9780801835247
- Edition
- 1st Edition.
- Seller catalogs
- History, Science
Winner of the Eugene Emme Astronautical Literature Prize from the American Astronautical Society
For eight days in October 1984, seven men and women orbitied the Earth on Space Shuttle Mission 41-G. The mission has begun a year earlier; however, with the select of its crew. Before Lift-off is the extraordinary day-to-day story of these astronauts' training and flight-and is as close as most of us will ever come to flying on the space shuttle.
New Yorker writer Henry Cooper obtained unprecedented permission from NASA to follow the 41-G crew from its formation through the completion of its mission. He was even given access to the heart of the training program: the crew's sessions in the shuttle mision simulators.
More than a chronical of different phases in the astronauts' learning process, Before Lift-off tells the story of the bonding of these men and women. It would be Captain Robert Crippen's fourth space flight, his second command in six months, and Sally Ride's second shuttle voyage. For rookies Davida Leestra, Jon McBride, and Kathy Sullivan, and for two payload specialists, the experience would mark an initiation into the most elite groups-those people who have ventured into space.
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