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Come Fly with Us: Nasa's Payload Specialist Program
Contributor(s): Croft, Melvin (Author), Youskauskas, John (Author), Thomas, Don (Foreword by)

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ISBN: 0803278926     ISBN-13: 9780803278929
Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
OUR PRICE: $44.60  

Binding Type: Hardcover
Published: February 2019
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Additional Information
BISAC Categories:
- Technology & Engineering | Aeronautics & Astronautics
- History | United States - 20th Century
Dewey: 629.450
LCCN: 2018003953
Series: Outward Odyssey: A People's History of Spaceflight
Physical Information: 1.4" H x 9.6" W x 8" L (1.80 lbs) 456 pages
Themes:
- Chronological Period - 20th Century
Features: Bibliography, Illustrated, Index, Price on Product
Review Citations: Publishers Weekly 12/24/2018
 
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Publisher Description:

2020 Space Hipsters Prize for Best Book in Astronomy, Space Exploration, or Space History

Come Fly with Us is the story of an elite group of space travelers who flew as members of many space shuttle crews from pre-Challenger days to Columbia in 2003. Not part of the regular NASA astronaut corps, these professionals known as "payload specialists" came from a wide variety of backgrounds and were chosen for an equally wide variety of scientific, political, and national security reasons. Melvin Croft and John Youskauskas focus on this special fraternity of spacefarers and their individual reflections on living and working in space. Relatively unknown to the public and often flying only single missions, these payload specialists give the reader an unusual perspective on the experience of human spaceflight. The authors also bring to light NASA's struggle to integrate the wide-ranging personalities and professions of these men and women into the professional astronaut ranks.

While Come Fly with Us relates the experiences of the payload specialists up to and including the Challenger tragedy, the authors also detail the later high-profile flights of a select few, including Barbara Morgan, John Glenn (who returned to space at the age of seventy-seven), and Ilan Ramon of Israel aboard Columbia on its final, fatal flight, STS-107.

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