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Title Space shuttle stories : firsthand astronaut accounts from all 135 missions / Tom Jones.

Publication Info. Washington, DC : Smithsonian Books, 2023.
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Location Call No. Status
 Bristol, Main Library - New Materials  629.44 SPACE    Check Shelf
 Burlington Public Library - New Books  629.441 JONES    Check Shelf
 Canton Public Library - Adult New Materials  629.441 SPACE    Check Shelf
 Glastonbury, Welles-Turner Memorial Library - New Materials  629.44 SPACE    DUE 05-02-24
 Marlborough, Richmond Memorial Library - New Materials  629.441 JONES    Check Shelf
 Newington, Lucy Robbins Welles Library - New Materials  629.441 JONES    DUE 04-11-24
 West Hartford, Noah Webster Library - Adult New Materials  629.45 SPACE    Check Shelf
 Windsor, Main Library - Adult New Materials  629.441 SP    Check Shelf
Description 319 pages : illustrations (colour) ; 27 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 314-315) and index.
Summary "Experience all 135 NASA space shuttle missions ever flown through the words of the astronauts themselves in this spectacularly illustrated volume with more than 600 photos from the NASA archives"-- Provided by publisher.
NASA's space shuttle was the world's first reusable spacecraft, accomplishing many firsts and inspiring generations across its 30-year lifespan as America's iconic spaceship. In Space Shuttle Stories, shuttle astronaut Tom Jones interviewed more than 130 fellow astronauts for personal vignettes from each mission, complemented by their written accounts for all 135 space shuttle missions, from Columbia's maiden flight in 1981 to the final launch of Atlantis in 2011. The book is a major contribution to the historical record of a momentous era of spaceflight.
Contents Foreword -- Developing the space shuttle -- List of acronyms -- Testing the space shuttle, 1981-1986 -- Return to flight and the space shuttle as science platform, 1986-1998 -- Building the International Space Station, losing Columbia, 1998-2011 -- The space shuttle in perspective.
Subject Space Shuttle Program (U.S.) -- Anecdotes.
Space shuttles -- United States -- Anecdotes.
Astronauts -- United States -- Anecdotes.
HISTORY / Military / Aviation & Space.
SCIENCE / Space Science / Space Exploration.
TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / Aeronautics & Astronautics.
Space Shuttle Program (U.S.) (OCoLC)fst00563585
Astronauts. (OCoLC)fst00819615
Space shuttles. (OCoLC)fst01127852
United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155
Genre/Form Anecdotes. (OCoLC)fst01423876
Interviews.
Anecdotes.
Photobooks.
Added Author Jones, Tom, 1955 January 22- editor.
ISBN 9781588347541 (hardcover)
1588347540 (hardcover)
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