Coming Home - Reentry and Recovery from Space (Paperback)

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 Sanger 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) and Ames Research Centers. For example, researchers such as H. Julian Allen and Alfred J. Eggers, Jr., at Ames pioneered blunt-body reentry techniques and ablative thermal protection systems in the 1950s, while Francis M. Rogallo at Langley developed creative parasail concepts that informed the development of the recovery systems of numerous reentry vehicles. The chapters that follow relate in a chronological manner the way in which NASA has approached the challenge of reentering the atmosphere after a space mission and the technologies associated with safely dealing with the friction of this encounter and the methods used for landing safely on Earth.

General

Imprint:	Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Country of origin:	United States
Series:	NASA Aeronautics Book
Release date:	November 2013
First published:	November 2013
Authors:	Roger D. Launius • Dennis R. Jenkins • National Aeronautics and Administration
Dimensions:	254 x 178 x 18mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback - Trade
Pages:	338
ISBN-13:	978-1-4937-0030-1
Categories:	Books > Earth & environment > Geography > Geographical discovery & exploration
LSN:	1-4937-0030-8
Barcode:	9781493700301

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