History of Space Shuttle Rendezvous - Comprehensive Review of American Manned Spaceflight Rendezvous including Apollo, Payload Deployment Details, Hubble ... Prox Ops, Orion Test (English Edition) [Kindle-editie] beoordelingen het boek quotes

This NASA document provides the most thorough history available about American manned spaceflight rendezvous techniques, from early concepts, Gemini and Apollo, and the Space Shuttle. The preface states: This technical history is intended to provide a technical audience with an introduction to the rendezvous and proximity operations history of the Space Shuttle Program. It details the programmatic constraints and technical challenges encountered during shuttle development in the 1970s and over thirty years of shuttle missions. An overview of rendezvous and proximity operations on many shuttle missions is provided, as well as how some shuttle rendezvous and proximity operations systems and flight techniques evolved to meet new programmatic objectives. Since the publication of the first edition in October of 2006 additional historical information has been collected. This revised edition provides additional information on Mercury, Gemini, Apollo, Skylab, and Apollo/Soyuz. Some chapters on the Space Shuttle have been updated and expanded. Four special focus chapters have been added to provide more detailed information on shuttle rendezvous. A chapter on the STS-39 mission of April/May 1991 describes the most complex deploy/retrieve mission flown by the shuttle. Another chapter focuses on the Hubble Space Telescope servicing missions. A third chapter gives the reader a detailed look at the February 2010 STS-130 mission to the international Space Station. The fourth chapter answers the question why rendezvous was not completely automated on the Gemini, Apollo, and Space Shuttle vehicles.Part I - Before The Space Shuttle * 1 Early Studies * 2 Mercury * 3 Gemini * 4 Apollo * 5 Skylab * 6 Apollo/Soyuz Test Project * Part II - The Space Shuttle * 7 Space Shuttle - A New Direction In Mission Activities * 8 Early Shuttle Rendezvous Studies * 9 Shuttle Design Reference Missions * 10 Plume Impingement * 11 On-Board Systems * 12 Skylab Reboost * 13 Coelliptic Versus Stable Orbit Rendezvous * 14 First Proximity Operations And Rendezvous Flights * 15 Challenges Of Subsequent Rendezvous And Proximity Operations Flights * 16 Rendezvous Or Proximity Operations Demonstration Missions * 17 Satellite Servicing Missions * 18 deployment and retrieval of scientific payloads * 19 Retrieval And Return To Earth Of A Satellite * 20 Mir And The International Space Station * 21 The STORRM DTO * 22 Summary * Part III - Special Focus Chapters * 23 STS-39, The Most Complex Deploy/Retrieve Mission * 24 A Closer Look At The Hubble Servicing Missions * 25 STS-130 Mission To The ISS * 26 Why was Shuttle Rendezvous and Docking Not Fully Automated? * Part IV - Appendices * A Note On Sources * Rendezvous Personnel * Appendix A - Rendezvous Guidance And Procedures Officers * Appendix B - Rendezvous And Orbit Flight Dynamics Officers * Appendix C - Rendezvous Crew Trainers * Appendix D - On-Board Navigation Personnel * Appendix E - Burn Targeting And Proximity Operations Personnel * Appendix F - Mission Evaluation Room Personnel * Appendix G - Relative Frame * Appendix H - Burn Nomenclature * Appendix I - Acronyms