NASA's First Space Shuttle Astronaut Selection: Redefining the Right Stuff - Softcover

Inhaltsangabe

Authors' Preface

Acknowledgements

Foreword

Dedication

List of Abbreviations and acronyms

Prologue

1. Expanding 'The Right Stuff'      

2. Who could fly?         

3. The new pilot astronauts

4. The first Mission Specialists

5. All Change in the Astronaut Office        

6. Ascan pioneers 

7. Silver Pin astronauts     

8. Preparing to fly

9. NASA's All-Electric Flying Machine      

10. The TFNG take wings

11. "Go at throttle up"

12. The final missions       

13. Flying a desk   

14. Reflections

15. The legacy

Afterword

Appendices

            1:         NASA Class of 1978 Astronaut Applicants

            2:         The Class of 1978

            3:         Group 8 Space Shuttle Experience

            4:         Group 8 EVA experience

            5:         NASA Astronaut Group 8: A selected chronology

Bibliography

About the authors

Other works by the authors

Index 

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