Into the Black : The Extraordinary Untold Story of the First Flight of the Space Shuttle Columbia and the Astronauts Who Flew Her (Hardcover)

from TeaTimeCoder

Too superficial (picks up on many technical issues but never goes into any detail) and needlessly sprinkled with hooks straight out of fiction (talking about style, not content), like jumping around chronologically. I would understand if this was the history of the construction of the M1 but you'...

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As a child of the 80s the shuttle program has always loomed large in my imagination, so I found Rowland White's "Into the Black" a fascinating look at the development of the shuttle and Columbia's maiden flight. White's book is very well researched and includes some of the "side stories" of Colum...

from dukedom_enough

White's new book is a nonfiction account of the first flight of the first fully-operative US space shuttle, Columbia, April 12-14, 1981, with looks backward and forward to examine many of the factors and events affecting or affected by that flight. Most prominent of these factors are the mutual i...

from jfe16

The "extraordinary untold story of the first flight of the space shuttle Columbia and the astronauts who flew her" is a real-life thriller that traces the historical background that led to the development and launch of the first space shuttle. The unfolding of the story is a riveting précis of th...

from pierthinker

The best book on manned space flight is, without question, 'Carrying The Fire' by Michael Collins (the command module pilot on the Apollo XI mission). Rowland White runs Collins a very close second. This is an extraordinarily well-researched, detailed and immersive description of the development ...