Riding Rockets

Publisher: Simon and Schuster

Published: 2007-02-06

Type: BOOK

... then climb- ing down the narrow interdeck ladder and making it to the side hatch while the shuttle was in powered flight and / or tumbling out of control ( the two most common conditions of aircraft ejections ) 270 | RIDING ROCKETS.

Riding Rockets

Publisher: Simon and Schuster

Published: 2006

Type: BOOK

A revealing memoir of the astronaut's career with the space shuttle program describes his childhood dreams after the launch of Sputnik, work as a Mission Specialist in the first group of shuttle astronauts, and hundreds of hours spent ...

NASA Technical Translation

Publisher:

Published: 1966

Type: BOOK

... rockets . / 25 Semiactive homing systems are used most frequently for guidance of rockets of the " air - to - air " class ( " Falcon , " " Sparrow 3 " ) , although there are beam- riding rockets ( " Sparrow 1 " ) . Rockets of the " air ...

National Bureau of Standards Circular

Publisher:

Published: 1954

Type: BOOK

... Rocket upper air report . ASME M. P. , Chicago . H. Oberth , Errors in rocket development . Rocketscience 6 , 2 , 26 and 50 . E. Perret , E. Roth , R. Sänger , and H. R. Voellmy , Trajectories of beam riding rockets with gas jet control ...

Circular of the Bureau of Standards

Publisher:

Published: 1954

Type: BOOK

... Rocket upper air report . ASME M. P. , Chicago . H. Oberth , Errors in rocket development . Rocketscience 6 , 2 , 26 and 50 . E. Perret , E. Roth , R. Sänger , and H. R. Voellmy , Trajectories of beam riding rockets with gas jet control ...

Space Exploration: All That Matters

Publisher: Hachette UK

Published: 2013-07-26

Type: BOOK

... Riding Rockets, I would have sold my wife and children into slavery for a ride into space'. Riding Rockets: The Outrageous Tales of a Space Shuttle Astronaut R. Mike Mullane. (Simon & Schuster, 2006) C' 'l Sagan, 'All civilizations ...

NASA's First Space Shuttle Astronaut Selection

Publisher: Springer Nature

Published: 2020-07-10

Type: BOOK

... Riding Rockets, TFNG Mission Specialist Mike Mullane explained the statistics relating to the group. “TFNGs logged nearly a thousand man-days in space and sixteen spacewalks,” he wrote. “Five became veterans of five space missions ...

American Aviation

Publisher:

Published: 1953

Type: BOOK

... Riding Rockets Revealed in Britain Indication that Britain may now have 2000 - mph rockets capable of out- maneuvering any piloted aircraft has come from Supply Minister Duncan Sandys ( see photo , page 17 ) . He hinted that British ...

Spacelab Payloads

Publisher: Springer Nature

Published: 2022-01-22

Type: BOOK

... Riding Rockets” and thought maybe he could help us. Mike was very cordial and responded: “Mike, I doubt that Simon & Schuster [his Riding Rockets publisher] would have an interest in this type of 'niche' book... in this case, one that's ...