Written by a a pilot/engineer participant of NASA's lifting body program, this book documents the adventures, triumphs, setbacks, and fun of pioneering a technology that allowed astronauts to accomplish lifting reentries and precise runway landings.
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Written by a a pilot/engineer participant of NASA's lifting body program, this book documents the adventures, triumphs, setbacks, and fun of pioneering a technology that allowed astronauts to accomplish lifting reentries and precise runway landings.
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Add this copy of Flying Without Wings (Smithsonian History of Aviation to cart. $88.70, good condition, Sold by Bonita rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Newport Coast, CA, UNITED STATES, published 1999 by Smithsonian.
Add this copy of Flying Without Wings: Nasa Lifting Bodies and the Birth to cart. $99.00, like new condition, Sold by Mainly Books rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Silverdale, PA, UNITED STATES, published 1999 by Smithsonian Institution Press.
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Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 1560988320. Hardcover with dustjacket, first printing as indicated by the publisher's "1" in the number line on copyright page, book and jacket are in excellent condition there are no remarkable flaws and a professional (removable) mylar cover is included, inscribed and signed by the co-author: "To Joel-With thanks for the help over the past decade. Curtis Peebles." Illustrated, includes a bibliography, "documents the adventure, triumphs, setbacks, and fun of pioneering a technology that allowed astronauts to accomplish lifting reentries and precise runeway landings"; 244 pages; Signed by Author.
Add this copy of Flying Without Wings: Nasa Lifting Bodies and the Birth to cart. $100.00, very good condition, Sold by Clausen Books, RMABA rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Colorado Springs, CO, UNITED STATES, published 1999 by Smithsonian Institution Press.
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B&W Photographs. Near Fine in Near Fine (in mylar) jacket. Hardcover. 8vo-over 7 "-9 " tall. Gift quality copy, textblock is very clean and very tight, b&w photographs. All edges straight and sound; Cloth spine only slightly shelf bumped at the head and foot, paper boards. Unclipped dust jacket, crease to bottom corner on front inner flap, couple small horizontal creases on the spine, faintly surface scuffed covers. 244pp., including index.
