
From Runway to Orbit
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Content
- Intro
- TABLE OF CONTENTS
- DEDICATION
- Acknowledgements
- Preface
- Foreword
- Introduction
- The Road to Space
- Getting Started: From X-1 to Dyna-Soar
- Another Road to Space
- I-Apprenticeship of a Young Engineer
- Data Processing
- X-15 Handling Qualities Studies
- X-15 Envelope Expansion
- X-15 Flight-Planning and Tech Brief
- X-15 Flights-The View From the Control Room
- The X-15 Pilots
- X-15 Ground Crews
- X-15 Follow-on Ideas
- II-Birth of the Lifting Body
- Invention of the Lifting Body
- Computer Analysis and Control Problems
- Learning to Fly
- Figuring Out What Went Wrong
- Fixing the M2-F1
- M2-F1 Air Tows
- III-Building the Heavyweight Lifting Bodies
- Future Plans
- Building the M2-F2 Simulator
- Looking at Advanced Lifting Bodies
- Building the M2-F2
- Preparing to Fly the M2-F2
- The HL-10 Lifting Body
- IV-Flying the M2-F2 and Other Adventures
- Getting Ready to Fly
- Flying the M2-F2
- The Maximum Likelihood Estimator and Other Projects
- Travels in the U.S.S.R.
- V-Flight Research in the 1960s and Early 1970s
- Toward Mach 8: the X-15A-2 and the Scramjet Program
- Back to School
- From the Earth to the Moon
- The Lifting-Body Program 1968-1975
- Looking Back at the Lifting Bodies
- VI-Origins of the Space Shuttle
- Initial Shuttle Concepts
- Picking a Configuration
- Writing the Aerodynamic Data Book
- VII-Getting Ready to Fly
- Justification of the Shuttle Approach-and-Landing Tests (ALT) Program
- Getting the Data
- Flow Fields and Separation
- VIII-The Approach-and-Landing Tests
- Shuttle/SCA Captive-Carry Tests
- Meeting the Press
- Prelude to ALT
- First Flight
- Tailcone Off and Pilot-Induced Oscillations
- IX-Counting Down to Launch
- Working the Problem
- The Importance of the X-15 Data
- Dryden and the Shuttle Technical Panels
- Dryden's Shuttle Simulator
- X-STS-1
- Wings into Space
- Heading Home at Mach 28
- Debriefs
- XI-Analyzing the Data
- First Looks
- The Bank Maneuver Oscillation and Other Issues
- Getting Ready for STS-2
- STS-2 Results and Conclusions
- XII-Becoming Operational: STS-3 Through STS-5
- Writing the Book
- STS-3
- STS-4: Hail to the Chief
- STS-5: The First Operational Flight
- XIII-STS-6 to the Loss of Challenger
- Expanding the Limits
- The Loss of Challenger
- After the Challenger
- Return to Flight
- XIV-Return to Flight: The Shuttle Program in the 1990s and Beyond
- STS-26R
- Missions After the Challenger Accident
- Summing up
- Lessons Learned
- XV-Going Nowhere Fast: The NASP Program
- Exploring Hypersonic Options
- The Start of NASP
- The Flaws of NASP
- Hypersonic Projects After NASP
- The HALO Manned Research Vehicle
- XVI-Hypersonics in the 1990s
- HALO
- The Goldin Years
- The X-33 and the Return of the Lifting Bodies
- Reflections
- Epilogue
- Stairway To Heaven
- The New Paradigm
- Losing Our Way
- Finding the Stairway to Heaven
- Ways and Means for Low-Cost Spaceflight
- Appendices
- Appendix A: Various Terms Used For Pilots
- Appendix B: Names of the NASA Dryden Flight Research Center
- Appendix C: Three Views of Vehicles
- Appendix D: Aircraft Nomenclature
- Appendix E: Runways at Edwards AFB
- Appendix F: STS-1
- Appendix G: STS-2
- Acronyms
- References
- About The Authors
- Kenneth W. Iliff
- Curtis Peebles
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