Dark Star
A New History of the Space Shuttle
$122.73
- Paperback
328 pages
- Release Date
23 January 2024
Summary
A captivating history of NASA’s Space Transportation System—the space shuttle—chronicling the inevitable failures of a doomed design.
In Dark Star, Matthew Hersch challenges the existing narrative of the most significant human space program of the last 50 years, NASA’s space shuttle. He begins with the origins of the space shuttle: a century-long effort to develop a low-cost, reusable, rocket-powered airplane to militarize and commercialize space travel, which Hersch explains…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780262546720 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 0262546728 |
| Author: | Matthew H. Hersch |
| Publisher: | MIT Press Ltd |
| Imprint: | MIT Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 328 |
| Release Date: | 23 January 2024 |
| Weight: | 397g |
| Dimensions: | 22mm x 152mm x 229mm |
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Matthew H. Hersch
Matthew H. Hersch is Associate Professor of the History of Science at Harvard University. He is the author of Inventing the American Astronaut, coauthor of A Social History of American Technology, and coeditor of War and Peace in Outer Space: Law, Policy, and Ethics.
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