Launch America: NASA, SpaceX, and the Dawn of a New Era of Human Spaceflight
Launch America: NASA, SpaceX, and the Dawn of a New Era of Human Spaceflight
English | 2021 | ASIN: B096YXCDRY | 442 Pages | PDF AZW3 EPUB | 275 MB
English | 2021 | ASIN: B096YXCDRY | 442 Pages | PDF AZW3 EPUB | 275 MB
On May 30th, 2020, NASA astronauts Douglas Hurley and Robert Behnken climbed into a new experimental spacecraft. Both men were veterans of two previous missions, but the adventure which they were about to embark upon was different than any in the history of space travel. Their ship, named Endeavour, was the first passenger-carrying spacecraft to be built by a commercial company. It was the product of a decade-long partnership between NASA, the world’s largest space agency, and SpaceX, an innovative start-up founded to send humans to Mars. Behnken and Hurley’s groundbreaking test flight, known as Demo-2, changed the course of space exploration forever and inspired millions of people to dream of a better future. This book presents the Crew Dragon story in its entirety for the first time. Readers will learn about the spacecraft, its mission, and the people who made it possible. “Launch America” features: