This absorbing book describes the long development of the Soviet space shuttle system, its infrastructure and the space agency's plans to follow up the first historic unmanned mission. The book includes comparisons with the American shuttle system and offers accounts of the Soviet test pilots chosen for training to fly the system, and the operational, political and engineering problems that finally sealed the fate of Buran and ultimately of NASA's Shuttle fleet.
- ISBN10 038773984X
- ISBN13 9780387739847
- Publish Date 1 January 2007
- Publish Status Active
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Praxies Publishing Ltd
- Format eBook
- Pages 543
- Language English