NASA's First Space Shuttle Astronaut Selection Redefining the Right Stuff
Unofficially they called themselves the TFNG, or the Thirty-Five New Guys. Officially, they were NASA’s Group 8 astronauts, selected in January 1978 to train for orbital missions aboard the Space Shuttle. Prior to this time only pilots or scientists trained as pilots had been assigned to fly on Amer...
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| Language: | English |
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Springer International Publishing
2020, 2020
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| Edition: | 1st ed. 2020 |
| Series: | Space Exploration
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Table of Contents:
- Authors’ Preface
- Acknowledgements
- Foreword
- Dedication
- List of Abbreviations and acronyms
- Prologue
- Chapter 1: Expanding ‘The Right Stuff’
- Chapter 2: Who could fly?
- Chapter 3: The new pilot astronauts
- Chapter 4: The first Mission Specialists
- Chapter 5: All Change in the Astronaut Office
- Chapter 6: Ascan pioneers
- Chapter 7: Silver Pin astronauts
- Chapter 8: Preparing to fly
- Chapter 9: NASA’s All-Electric Flying Machine
- Chapter 10: The TFNG take wings
- Chapter 11: “Go at throttle up”
- Chapter 12: The final missions
- Chapter 13: Flying a desk
- Chapter 14: Reflections
- Chapter 15: The legacy
- Afterword
- Appendices
- Bibliography
- About the authors
- Other works by the authors
- Index