Described are the organization and some of the interests and missions of NASA, the Space Transportation System, the Space Shuttle orbiter Enterprise, astronaut training and clothing, being launched into space, living and working in weightlessness, extravehicular activity, and the return from space to Earth. The various aspects of living in space are treated in considerable detail. This includes how the astronauts prepare food, how they eat and drink, how they sleep, exercise, change clothes and handle personal hygiene when in space.


    Access

    Access via TIB

    Check availability in my library


    Export, share and cite



    Title :

    Wings of a Dream: The Space Shuttle


    Publication date :

    1988


    Size :

    31 pages


    Type of media :

    Report


    Type of material :

    No indication


    Language :

    English





    Space Shuttle : America's wings to the future

    Kaplan, Marshall H. / Kaplan, M. H. | TIBKAT | 1983


    Famous Flyers: A Dream of Wings

    Online Contents | 2003


    Wings In Orbit: Scientific and Engineering Legacies of the Space Shuttle

    Hale, N. Wayne / Lulla, Kamlesh / Lane, Helen W. et al. | NTRS | 2010


    Wings In Orbit: Scientific and Engineering Legacies of the Space Shuttle

    N. W. Hale / K. Lulla / H. W. Lane et al. | NTIS | 2010