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Aerospace: Planning Space Shuttle's maiden voyage: In a matter of months space-oriented experiments will soar aloft aboard the Columbia

Myron S. Malkin, Robert Freitag

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Describes the United States Space Shuttle project. Topics include: the basic elements; getaway special-small payload programme for individual experiments; spacelab and upper stages; evolution and the growth of systems; projected cargo manifest for the first 35 Space Shuttle flights; Space Shuttle avionics.

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Key concepts: Space Shuttle, Aerospace, Payload (computing), Soar, Aeronautics, Avionics, Aerospace engineering, Space (punctuation)