NASA's Scientist-Astronauts (Springer Praxis Books / Space Exploration)

by Colin Burgess (Author), David J . Shayler (Author)

• New

  Paperback
  2006

  $37.48

  This book provides unique access to the story of how scientists were accepted into the American Space Programme, and reveals how, after four difficult decades, the role of the heroic test pilot astronaut has been replaced by men and women who are science orientated space explorers.