As with others, looking forward to it. Can't wait. This has been a long time coming understandable as Mr. Jenkins has obviously has been otherwise occupied with related matters but no doubt will be worth the wait.
Will the content of that book be included in this set? Please keep us updated. November is a few days away and it's not turning up as a coming title in any of the usual sources so I suppose the release has moved back? He gave his permission to share the slipcase artwork below , as well as the following details: Foreword by Story Musgrave Three volumes, each pages, full color 1, pages total Total of 3, pieces of art 2, photos and pieces of line art Majority of the photos are color Main text runs , words Captions are another , words estimated Footnotes are , words Index has 3, entries Slipcase and faux leather covers, no jackets.
What retail outlet will it be available from? Specialty Press only? And what retail price? My impression is that this final edition is extensively revised and expanded, in addition to covering the program after the th flight and into retirement. Actually there are four previous editions. Aerofax published the first edition covering the development program and flights Search "Aerofax Datagraph 5.
Posts: From: Houston, TX Registered: Nov posted PM Here is what Dennis writes in his preface to "Developing an Icon": When I wrote the mini-edition of what became this book in , the response was overwhelmingly positive, leading me to write the first of the expanded hardcover editions.
By the time I finished in , however, Aerofax was largely out of business and other publishers said there would never be a market for more than copies of a book on space shuttle; all declined to publish it.
Believing there was a story to be told, I published the book myself. Roger D. Launius, then chief historian at NASA, took notice and coached me on how to make the book more authoritative; the improvement was evident in later editions.
By late , more than , copies of three editions had passed. This is more than an update to the previous edition; it is a complete rewrite and will obviously be the last.
Looks like I will have to pick this up. Specialty Press is expected to begin taking pre-orders sometime this week. Product Type Books. Sheet Music. Receive the broadest set of results by using keyword only. Year min to max Option: Enter a published year range to help narrow your results. Condition All. Items Listed Within All Listed in past 24 hours Listed in past 48 hours Listed in the past 3 days Listed in the past 5 days Listed in the past 7 days Listed in the past 10 days Listed in the past 14 days Listed in the past 21 days Listed in the past 30 days Listed in the past 60 days Listed in the past 90 days.
Find Refresh this form. Only near the end was it able to demonstrate its intended purpose, building a space station. Even that, when finished, was only a shell of what had been envisioned when the space shuttle was approved. Unfortunately, having found its stride as the primary support vehicle for the International Space Station, the White House canceled the program, leaving the United States without the ability to launch people to orbit.
All of this has left an uncertain legacy for one of the most visible engineering achievements of the 20th Century. This book is not meant to establish that legacy, but to thoroughly document the development, technology, and, to a lesser extent, the flight campaign. We will leave it to future historians to determine the ultimate worthiness of the program.
What we can say for certain, though, is that it was one hell of a ride.
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