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Offline Vahe231991

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A new book from Spring-Praxis Books titled "The Untold Stories of the Space Shuttle Program: Unfulfilled Dreams and Missions that Never Flew" will be coming out by the end of this year:
https://www.amazon.com/Untold-Stories-Space-Shuttle-Program/dp/303119652X/ref=sr_1_1?crid=29KX6N832JSO0&keywords=davide+sivolella&qid=1667888229&s=books&sprefix=%2Cstripbooks-intl-ship%2C3642&sr=1-1
https://link.springer.com/book/9783031196546

The synopsis of this book from the Amazon website is as follows:
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In September 1969, several months after the Apollo 11 lunar landing, President Richard M. Nixon established the Space Task Force to chart NASA’s path for the decades to come. This imaginative vision was shattered less than six months later when, on January 13, 1970, NASA Administrator Dr. Thomas Paine announced that, owing to funding cuts, only the reusable Space Shuttle could be afforded -- there would be no space station, no return to the Moon, and no missions to Mars.

This is a story never before told about the missions and technologies that NASA had begun to plan but never fully realized. The book is a companion to the author’s previous two works on the Space Shuttle. Whereas the first two books showed how the Space Shuttle flew in space and what the program accomplished, this book explains what more the Space Shuttle could have achieved and how the space transportation system could have further matured if circumstances had been otherwise. A final chapter also discusses how some of these plans might be resurrected in future programs.

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Isn’t that the same book that we discuss in the history thread?
https://forum.nasaspaceflight.com/index.php?topic=57668.0

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Isn’t that the same book that we discuss in the history thread?
https://forum.nasaspaceflight.com/index.php?topic=57668.0
Yes, that's the book discussed at that thread.

 

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