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Dark Star
- A New History of the Space Shuttle
Engelsk Paperback
Dark Star
- A New History of the Space Shuttle
Engelsk Paperback

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A captivating history of NASA’s Space Transportation System—the space shuttle—chronicling the inevitable failures of a doomed design.

In Dark Star, Matthew Hersch challenges the existing narrative of the most significant human space program of the last fifty years, NASA’s space shuttle. He begins with the origins of the space shuttle: a century-long effort to develop a low-cost, reusable, rocket-powered airplane to militarize and commercialize space travel, which Hersch explains was built the wrong way, at the wrong time, and for all the wrong reasons. Describing the unique circumstances that led to the space shuttle’s creation by the administration of President Richard Nixon in 1972 and its subsequent flights from 1981 through 2011, Hersch illustrates how the space shuttle was doomed from the start.

While most historians have accepted the view that the space shuttle’s fatal accidents—including the 1986 Challenger explosion—resulted from deficiencies in NASA’s management culture that lulled engineers into a false confidence in the craft, Dark Star reveals the widespread understanding that the shuttle was predestined for failure as a technology demonstrator. The vehicle was intended only to give the United States the appearance of a viable human spaceflight program until funds became available to eliminate its obvious flaws. Hersch’s work seeks to answer the perilous questions of technological choice that confront every generation, and it is a critical read for anyone interested in how we can create a better world through the things we build.
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Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
328
ISBN-13:
9780262546720
Indbinding:
Paperback
Udgave:
ISBN-10:
0262546728
Udg. Dato:
26 dec 2023
Længde:
29mm
Bredde:
229mm
Højde:
153mm
Forlag:
MIT Press Ltd
Oplagsdato:
26 dec 2023
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