Coming Home: Reentry and Recovery from Space

by Roger D. Launius, National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Dennis R. Jenkins

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This study represents a means of highlighting the myriad of technological developments that made possible the safe reentry and return from space and the landing on Earth. This story extends back at least to the work of Walter Hohmann and Eugen S nger in Germany in the 1920s and involved numerous aerospace engineers at the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA)/NASA Langley and the Lewis (now the John H. Glenn Research Center at Lewis Field)...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:1493700308

ISBN13:9781493700301

Release Date:November 2013

Publisher:Createspace Independent Publishing Platform

Length:338 Pages

Weight:1.29 lbs.

Dimensions:0.7" x 7.0" x 10.0"

Related Subjects

Aerospace Astronautics & Space Flight Engineering History Science Science & Math Science & Scientists Science & Technology Technology

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