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Come Fly with Us - NASA's Payload Specialist Program (Hardcover)
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Come Fly with Us - NASA's Payload Specialist Program (Hardcover)
Series: Outward Odyssey: A People's History of Spaceflight
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2020 Space Hipsters Prize for Best Book in Astronomy, Space
Exploration, or Space History Come Fly with Us is the story
of an elite group of space travelers who flew as members of many
space shuttle crews from pre-Challenger days to Columbia in 2003.
Not part of the regular NASA astronaut corps, these professionals
known as “payload specialists” came from a wide variety of
backgrounds and were chosen for an equally wide variety of
scientific, political, and national security reasons. Melvin Croft
and John Youskauskas focus on this special fraternity of
spacefarers and their individual reflections on living and working
in space. Relatively unknown to the public and often flying only
single missions, these payload specialists give the reader an
unusual perspective on the experience of human spaceflight. The
authors also bring to light NASA’s struggle to integrate the
wide-ranging personalities and professions of these men and women
into the professional astronaut ranks. While Come Fly with Us
relates the experiences of the payload specialists up to and
including the Challenger tragedy, the authors also detail the later
high-profile flights of a select few, including Barbara Morgan,
John Glenn (who returned to space at the age of seventy-seven), and
Ilan Ramon of Israel aboard Columbia on its final, fatal flight,
STS-107. Â Purchase the audio edition.
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