Flying Without Wings (Smithsonian History of Aviation and Spaceflight)

by Milton O. Thompson and Curtis Peebles

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 profoundly influence the history of spaceflight. Flying Without Wings begins in the late 1950s with the design and development of an oddly-shaped wingless aircraft known as lifting bodies. Although this was not the technology used to land on the moon,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1560988320
• ISBN13: 9781560988328
• Release Date: April 1999
• Publisher: Smithsonian Books
• Length: 248 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.3" x 9.3"