Come Fly with Us: Nasa's Payload Specialist Program

by Melvin Croft and John Youskauskas

Book Overview

Winner of the 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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0803278926
• ISBN13: 9780803278929
• Release Date: February 2019
• Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
• Length: 456 Pages
• Weight: 1.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 9.6" x 8.0"