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Title: Comm Check... : The Final Flight of Shuttle Columbia by Michael Cabbage, William Harwood ISBN: 0-7432-6091-0 Publisher: Free Press Pub. Date: 27 January, 2004 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $26.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.71 (7 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: SpaceFan
Comment: I just finished reading Comm Check and while I found little new beyond the news reports, I thought it was an excellent narrative about the Columbia accident. I admit I was skeptical about a book written by news reporters because they have a tendency to sensationalize things to the point that it is no longer factually accurate. However this was not the case with Cabbage and Harwood, a pleasant surprise. I would highly recommend this book.
Rating: 5
Summary: Well written fact-based book
Comment: "Comm Check" does an excellent job of telling the Columbia accident by pulling from many sources. The story covers from the initial idea to send an Israeli into orbit to Congress cutting NASA's 2004 budget shortly after the accident report was released. The authors save their opinions on the space program and its future for the ten-page epilogue.
Rating: 4
Summary: NASA's conflicting mandate
Comment: I thought the most important revelation in this book was the space industry's inability to design a replacement for the shuttle that can reach space cheaply and routinely. It sounds like we might simply lack the technology at this point in history.
As the book points out, the shuttle is a dangerous, expensive, experimental vehicle. To build and operate a space station we need a cheap, reliable "space truck". Otherwise, inevitable delays for vehicle repairs will fatally disrupt the station's construction and operation schedules. That is exactly what NASA was trying to avoid when they decided to continue launching after a nearly disastrous foam strike (during the October 2002 launch of Atlantis). Continuing to launch RISKED a major setback, but stopping the program to deal with a technical glitch that had already proved all but insoluble GUARANTEED a major setback. Not an easy choice.
We, the public, give NASA a conflicting mandate. We want the space program to accomplish something, and we also want it to be safe. The reality seems to be that we humans are still struggling just to reach space, and to insist that something more meaningful be done there requires compromising safety.
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Title: Columbia Accident Investigation Report (Apogee Books Space Series) by Robert Godwin ISBN: 189495906X Publisher: Apogee Books Pub. Date: October, 2003 List Price(USD): $25.95 |
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Title: High Calling : The Courageous Life and Faith of Space Shuttle Columbia Commander Rick Husband by Evelyn Husband, Donna VanLiere ISBN: 0785261958 Publisher: Thomas Nelson Pub. Date: 11 January, 2004 List Price(USD): $24.99 |
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Title: Light This Candle : The Life & Times of Alan Shepard--America's First Spaceman by NEAL THOMPSON ISBN: 0609610015 Publisher: Crown Publishing Group Pub. Date: 23 March, 2004 List Price(USD): $27.50 |
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Title: One Giant Leap : Neil Armstrong's Stellar American Journey by Leon Wagener ISBN: 0312873433 Publisher: Forge Pub. Date: 24 April, 2004 List Price(USD): $25.95 |
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Title: Gemini 12: The Nasa Mission Reports (Apogee Books Space Series) by Robert Godwin ISBN: 1894959043 Publisher: Apogee Books Pub. Date: February, 2004 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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