Nasa's First Space Shuttle Astronaut Selection: Redefining the Right Stuff

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

Author: David J. Shayler, Colin Burgess
Publisher: Springer
Published: 07/11/2020
Pages: 589
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 2.16lbs
Size: 9.61h x 6.69w x 1.26d
ISBN13: 9783030457419
ISBN10: 3030457419
BISAC Categories:
- Science | Space Science | Astronomy
- Science | Physics | Astrophysics
- Technology & Engineering | Aeronautics & Astronautics

About the Author

David Shayler has been writing books for Springer-Praxis for over 18 years, with a total of 25 authored or coauthored titles for the series. These have ranged from various aspects of American and Russian manned spaceflight history and operations to topics on women in space, the human exploration of Mars and the development of EVA techniques and operations. He has a passion for recording the lives and careers of the world's space explorers. He has been a member of the British Interplanetary Society for over 40 years and currently is a serving Council Member. He also organized and hosted the annual Sino-Chinese Technical Forum and is currently organizing two extra Forums for next year on the topic of Space Rescue and Safety and 20 years of ISS Operations. Dave is a guest editor of the annual BIS JBIS Space Chronicle issue on Sino and Chinese Technical Forums and has contributed to a number of BIS Publications. His work has been published in the UK in Spaceflight, and Spaceflight News, and in the United States under Macmillan's Who's Who in Space trilogy as well as the Magill Science Survey and the MPress Secrets of the Universe Card Collection. A number of his titles and published articles have been referenced in other books, journals and official NASA publications.

Colin Burgess's early books were on the Australian prisoner-of-war experience, before he turned his efforts to writing about his principal interest: human space exploration. Colin has written a number of books on the subject for the University of Nebraska Press and Springer-Praxis. The books he has written or coauthored for Springer-Praxis are "NASA's Scientist-Astronauts," "Animals in Space," "The First Soviet Cosmonaut Team," "Selecting the Mercury Seven," "Moon Bound," "Freedom 7," "Liberty Bell 7" "Friendship 7" and "Aurora 7." More recently, he has written about the Interkosmos program and a history of NASA's Group 5 and 7 astronauts with coauthor David Shayler.