The Space Shuttle: Celebrating Thirty Years of NASA's First Space Plane
- ISBN-10
- 0760347816
- ISBN-13
- 9780760347812
- Series
- The Space Shuttle
- Category
- History
- Pages
- 300
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2015-04-01
- Publisher
- Zenith Press
- Author
- Piers Bizony
Description
Noted space and science author Piers Bizony's retrospective covers the entire Space Shuttle program from 1981 to 2011. Relive the history of one of America's most iconic spacecraft.
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- 2015-04-01
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