Years after it should have taken place, Owen Garriott did not recall doing much training for a Shuttle mission he never flew. On the day that Challenger vanished in a fireball in the cold Florida sky, Garriott was eight months away from launching on a flight like no other: the only Spacelab mission ever manifested with a ‘short’ pressurised module—the nine-feet-long (2.7-metre) ‘core’ segment, minus the ‘experiment’ segment (see Chapter Three)—and single pallet, a mission which began life as a pair of missions, later merged into one. The Earth Observation Mission (EOM), first planned in 1983, foresaw multiple flights of instruments previously demonstrated on Spacelab-1 for solar physics, astronomy, space plasma physics, atmospheric physics and Earth observations.


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    Titel :

    Earthgazers


    Weitere Titelangaben:

    Springer Praxis Books(formerly: Springer-Praxis Series)


    Beteiligte:
    Evans, Ben (Autor:in)


    Erscheinungsdatum :

    2024-04-25


    Format / Umfang :

    26 pages





    Medientyp :

    Aufsatz/Kapitel (Buch)


    Format :

    Elektronische Ressource


    Sprache :

    Englisch