NASA's first Space Shuttle astronaut selection : redefining the right stuff / David J. Shayler, Colin Burgess.

Unofficially they called themselves the TFNG, or the Thirty-Five New Guys. Officially, they were NASAs Group 8 astronauts, selected in January 1978 to train for orbital missions aboard the Space Shuttle. Prior to this time only pilots or scientists trained as pilots had been assigned to fly on Ameri...

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Main Author: Shayler, David, 1955-
Other Authors: Burgess, Colin, 1947-
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cham : Springer, 2020.
Series:Springer-Praxis books in space exploration.
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505 0 |a Authors Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Foreword -- Dedication -- List of Abbreviations and acronyms -- Prologue -- Chapter 1: Expanding 'The Right Stuff -- Chapter 2: Who could fly? -- Chapter 3: The new pilot astronauts -- Chapter 4: The first Mission Specialists -- Chapter 5: All Change in the Astronaut Office -- Chapter 6: Ascan pioneers -- Chapter 7: Silver Pin astronauts -- Chapter 8: Preparing to fly -- Chapter 9: NASAs All-Electric Flying Machine -- Chapter 10: The TFNG take wings -- Chapter 11: "Go at throttle up" -- Chapter 12: The final missions -- Chapter 13: Flying a desk -- Chapter 14: Reflections -- Chapter 15: The legacy -- Afterword -- Appendices -- Bibliography -- About the authors -- Other works by the authors -- Index. 
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