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
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;
Journal_Title :
Spectrum, IEEE
DOI :
10.1109/MSPEC.1981.6369784