Coming Home: Reentry and Recovery from Space

by Roger D. Launius, National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Dennis R. Jenkins

Book Overview

This study represents a means of highlighting the myriad of technological developments that made possible the safe reentry and return from space and the landing on Earth. This story extends back at least to the work of Walter Hohmann and Eugen S nger in Germany in the 1920s and involved numerous aerospace engineers at the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA)/NASA Langley and the Lewis (now the John H. Glenn Research Center at Lewis Field)...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1493700308
• ISBN13: 9781493700301
• Release Date: November 2013
• Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
• Length: 338 Pages
• Weight: 1.29 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 7.0" x 10.0"