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Binding: Hardcover
Dewey Decimal Number: 523
EAN: 9780387271484
ISBN: 0387271481
Label: Springer
Manufacturer: Springer
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 454
Publication Date: January 23, 2006
Publisher: Springer
Sales Rank: 640206
Studio: Springer
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Product Description:
In ‘Columbia: Final Voyage’ aerospace writer Philip Chien, who has over 20 years’ experience covering the US space program, provides a unique insight into the crew members who lost their lives in the Columbia disaster. Chien interviewed all seven crew members several times and got to know them as individuals. He reviews in detail their training, their scientific work and other activities during their successful 16-day flight, the background of the accident itself and a detailed first-hand account of what happened that fateful day in February 2003. The author provides a comprehensive and personal look at both the Columbia astronauts and the STS-107 mission, together with a behind-the-scenes account of other people involved in the mission and their personal reactions to the accident.
Forward by Jonathan B. Clark, widower of Columbia astronaut Laurel Clark
Introduction by Apollo 11 astronaut Buzz Aldrin
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In his book about the last flight of space shuttle Columbia, titled COLUMBIA: FINAL VOYAGE, Philip Chien compiles a book intended to be a tribute to the astronauts and the science of STS-107. If you're looking for a general human interest story and an exhaustive description of many of STS-107's 87 science payloads, this will be a bonanza for you. But if you're looking for a clinical, unbiased investigation about how and why the Columbia accident happened, unfortunately this isn't the right book for ... Read More
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I read "Comm Check" before I read Chien's book and thought "Comm Check" was great. Chien's book was supposed to have more personal anectdotes about the astronauts so I decided to check it out. I'm glad I didn't buy it. The stories about the astronauts, while heartwarming, were not worth the read. Chien's writing style is not as graceful as I would like (what's with all the exclamation points?). But the real kicker was his totally uncalled for comment about the Israeli government, wondering if they ... Read More
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What Dwayne A. Day said in his Amazon review of this book.
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I worked on the Columbia accident investigation as an investigator and have read several of the accounts of the accident and the following investigation. William Langewiesche's article in the November 2003 Atlantic Monthly was very good. Cabbage and Harwood's book Comm Check is also a good account of this subject. I was wary that Philip Chien could add anything significant to this story simply because it has been well covered. Now I and others have a much greater reason to be wary: the author's ... Read More
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Much has been written about the shuttle Columbia's fatal accident in February 2003. Newspapers were filled with articles from reporters who rarely before had covered space exploration; experienced space newsfolk followed the recovery effort and accident investigation like hawks for at least the next year. Few Americans are unaware of the event or the cause: external tank foam hitting a wing edge on launch, causing overheating and break-up on re-entry. The loss of another seven astronauts in this manner ... Read More
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