Space Shuttle main engine; the first twenty years and beyond.

9780877035473

Space Shuttle main engine; the first twenty years and beyond.

Biggs, Robert E. (Bob).

Univelt Inc.

2008

256 pages

$50.00

Paperback

AAS history series; v.29

TL795

In a volume published for the American Astronomical Society (AAS), the principal engineer for the Space Shuttle Main Engine (SSME) project, who directed the engine tests from 1975-1985, presents an illustrated history of the development of this pivotal component of the US space program. Biggs devotes a chapter to the Challenger disaster. Summary tables of the tenures of SSME project managers, and Shuttle launches and landings are appended. This is an update of an AAS article appearing as a chapter in A History of Liquid Rocket Engine Development in the United States, 1955-1980 (AAS History series, v.13, Univelt, 1992).

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