NASA's Scientist-Astronauts
- ISBN-10
- 0387493875
- ISBN-13
- 9780387493879
- Category
- Science
- Pages
- 543
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2007-09-19
- Publisher
- Springer Science & Business Media
- Authors
- Colin Burgess, Shayler David
Description
This book provides unique access to the story of how scientists were accepted into the American Space Programme, and reveals how, after four difficult decades, the role of the heroic test pilot astronaut has been replaced by men and women who are science orientated space explorers.
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