Come Fly with Us: NASA's Payload Specialist Program (Outward Odyssey: A People's History of Spaceflight)
Croft, Melvin; Youskauskas, John
Language: English
Published by University of Nebraska Press, Lincoln Nebraska, 2019
Series: Book 11 of 25 - Outward Odyssey: A People's History of Spaceflight
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by Melvin Croft and John Youskauskas Foreword by Don Thomas Published by: Nebraska Series: Outward Odyssey: A People's History of Spaceflight 456 Pages, 47 photographs, appendix, index HARDCOVER 9780803278929 PUBLISHED: 2019-02.
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- Title
- Come Fly with Us: NASA's Payload Specialist Program (Outward Odyssey: A People's History of Spaceflight)
- Author
- Croft, Melvin; Youskauskas, John
- Publisher
- University of Nebraska Press, Lincoln Nebraska
- Publication year
- 2019
- Condition
- As new
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- As New
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- Binding
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0803278926
- ISBN 13
- 9780803278929
- Item weight
- 1.85 pounds
- Dimensions
- 20.32 centimeters width by 24.38 centimeters height by 3.56 centimeters depth
- Series
- Book 11 of 25: Outward Odyssey: A People's History of Spaceflight
Winner of the 2020 Space Hipsters Prize for Best Book in Astronomy, Space Exploration, or Space History
Come Fly with Us is the story of an elite group of space travelers who flew as members of many space shuttle crews from pre-Challenger days to Columbia in 2003. Not part of the regular NASA astronaut corps, these professionals known as “payload specialists” came from a wide variety of backgrounds and were chosen for an equally wide variety of scientific, political, and national security reasons. Melvin Croft and John Youskauskas focus on this special fraternity of spacefarers and their individual reflections on living and working in space. Relatively unknown to the public and often flying only single missions, these payload specialists give the reader an unusual perspective on the experience of human spaceflight. The authors also bring to light NASA’s struggle to integrate the wide-ranging personalities and professions of these men and women into the professional astronaut ranks.
While Come Fly with Us relates the experiences of the payload specialists up to and including the Challenger tragedy, the authors also detail the later high-profile flights of a select few, including Barbara Morgan, John Glenn (who returned to space at the age of seventy-seven), and Ilan Ramon of Israel aboard Columbia on its final, fatal flight, STS-107.
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