Go
 

  Get this audio book:




Learn More About
Find More Titles by
This Author: David Hitt
This Narrator: Gary L. Willprecht
This Publisher: University Press Audiobooks

Homesteading Space: The Skylab Story by David Hitt

Homesteading Space: The Skylab Story

by David Hitt


Title Details

 
Unabridged Edition
Running Time
21 Hrs. 52 Min.

Description

As the United States and the Soviet Union went from exploring space to living in it, a space station was conceived as the logical successor to the Apollo moon program. But between conception and execution stood the vastness of space itself, to say nothing of the monumental technological challenges. Homesteading Space, by two of Skylab's own astronauts and a NASA journalist, tells the dramatic story of America's first space station from beginning to fiery end.

Homesteading Space is much more than a story of technological and scientific success; it is also an absorbing, sometimes humorous, often inspiring account of the determined, hardworking individuals who shepherded the program through a near-disastrous launch, a heroic rescue, an exhausting study of Comet Kohoutek, and the lab's ultimate descent into the Indian Ocean. Featuring the unpublished in-flight diary of astronaut Alan Bean, the book is replete with the personal recollections and experiences of the Skylab crew and those who worked with them in training, during the mission, and in bringing them safely home.

The book is published by University of Nebraska Press. The audiobook is published by University Press Audiobooks.

"Offers valuable personal recollections from those who were there." (Air & Space)

"A well-told saga of Skylab from start to fiery fall." (Coalition for Space Exploration)

"A great read." (Ed Gibson, Skylab III science pilot and author)


People Who Liked Homesteading Space: The Skylab Story Also Liked These Titles:
  The Pleiadian Agenda
by Barbara Hand Clow