Flying Without Wings: NASA Lifting Bodies and the Birth of the Space Shuttle

by Milton O. Thompson

This book charts the transformation of aircraft into spacecraft and describes the efforts of a small group of NASA pilots and researchers to prove a seemingly impossible aerodynamic concept that would... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1560988320
• ISBN13: 9781560988328
• Release Date: April 1999
• Publisher: Smithsonian Books (DC)
• Length: 254 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.3" x 9.3"