• DocumentCode
    1361819
  • Title

    Aerospace: Shuttle firsts put to the test: After its near-perfect maiden flight, Columbia needs fine tuning for a trip that will highlight its remote arm and its first payload

  • Author

    Lombardo, T.G. ; Mokhoff, N.

  • Author_Institution
    `Spectrum´, New York, NY, USA
  • Volume
    18
  • Issue
    8
  • fYear
    1981
  • Firstpage
    34
  • Lastpage
    39
  • Abstract
    Discusses the 50 deviations from expected performance from countdown to landing that occurred during the first flight of NASA´s Shuttle and what action will be necessary to correct them in time for the first payload flight.
  • Keywords
    space vehicles; Shuttle; deviations; expected performance; Computers; NASA; Orbits; Payloads; Space vehicles; Tiles;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Journal_Title
    Spectrum, IEEE
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • ISSN
    0018-9235
  • Type

    jour

  • DOI
    10.1109/MSPEC.1981.6369784
  • Filename
    6369784
    • Link To Document
    https://search.isc.ac/dl/search/defaultta.aspx?DTC=49&DC=1361819