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Quality
Model kit building as i have its brilliant because you will become intimate with the shuttle its workings
Amazing in depthdetail written with regard for the layman
This doesnt take away from the quality of this edition but i thought i would mention this
I didnt think jenkins could or needed to top the second edition of the book but he did with the third
Competitiveness
Well put together and puts you right in the seat of the greatest machine in the world
You dont have to be a rocket scientist to read it cover to cover but a little intellectual fortitude and at least a laymans gra... Read More
Breaks down the pioneering development of reuseable spacecraft and details the development of the beloved orbiter family
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Jenkins which chronicles the entire national space transportation system program
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It has everything from the x15 through the development of the shuttle has summaries of every proposal throughout development that exists and says which ones vanished
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Most people probably skip those serial number lists on pp
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But theres one problem the book appears to have gone directly from the authors word processor to the printer without making a stop at an editor
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
Curiously this same problem plagues the entire nasa mission reports series edited by robert godwin
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It is without a doubt the work to own in regards to the space shuttle program
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Within the books pages there can be found a wealth of information going back to the early 1940s and stopping in the year 2000 with the launch of the 100th shuttle mission
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Not to make this review political but hopefully in the coming years the usa will not abandon the knowledge and technologies that made all this possible