The Ultimate Engineer
University of Nebraska Press (Verlag)
978-0-8032-9955-9 (ISBN)
From the late 1950s to 1976, the U.S. human spaceflight program advanced as it did largely due to the extraordinary efforts of Austrian immigrant George M. Low. Described as the “ultimate engineer” during his career at NASA, Low was a visionary architect and leader from the agency’s inception in 1958 to his retirement in 1976. As chief of manned spaceflight at NASA, Low was instrumental in the Mercury, Gemini, and Apollo programs.
At the end of his NASA career, Low was one of the leading figures in the development of the Space Shuttle in the early 1970s, and he was instrumental in NASA’s transition into a post-Apollo world. Chronicling Low’s escape from Nazi-occupied Austria to his helping land a man on the moon, The Ultimate Engineer sheds new light on one of the most fascinating and complex personalities of the golden age of U.S. human space travel.
Richard Jurek is a contributor to the Smithsonian’s Air & Space magazine and website and is the coauthor of Marketing the Moon: The Selling of the Apollo Lunar Program with David Meerman Scott. Gerald D. Griffin is a former director of the NASA Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center in Houston and also served as the deputy director of the John F. Kennedy Space Center and the Hugh F. Dryden Flight Research Center.
Foreword by Gerald D. Griffin
Introduction
Chapter One: New Beginnings
Chapter Two: A Man in Space, Soonest
Chapter Three: Toward a Worthy Goal: Landing on the Moon
Chapter Four: The Longest Days: Rescuing Apollo
Chapter Five: Post-Apollo: Reshaping NASA
Chapter Six: Giving Back to the Future
Epilogue: The Legacy of George M. Low
Appendix: George M. Low Curriculum Vitae
Acknowledgements
Source Notes
Select Bibliography
Index
| Erscheinungsdatum | 06.11.2019 |
|---|---|
| Reihe/Serie | Outward Odyssey: A People's History of Spaceflight |
| Vorwort | Gerald D. Griffin |
| Zusatzinfo | 38 photographs, 1 appendix, index |
| Verlagsort | Lincoln |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 152 x 229 mm |
| Themenwelt | Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte |
| Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Geschichte / Politik | |
| Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Natur / Technik | |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte | |
| Technik ► Fahrzeugbau / Schiffbau | |
| Technik ► Luft- / Raumfahrttechnik | |
| ISBN-10 | 0-8032-9955-9 / 0803299559 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0-8032-9955-9 / 9780803299559 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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