Spacelab Payloads: Prepping Experiments and Hardware for Flight (Springer Praxis Books)

Author: Haddad Michael E.

Brand: MOXIC

Edition: 1st ed. 2022

Number Of Pages: 550

Details: Product Description

Spacelab was a reusable laboratory facility that was flown on the Space Shuttle from 1983 to 1998. Completing 22 major missions and contributing to many other NASA goals, Spacelab stands as one of the Shuttle program’s most resounding successes.
The system comprised multiple components, including a pressurized laboratory module, unpressurized carrier pallets and other related hardware, all housed in the Shuttle’s Payload Bay and crew compartment. But how did all those varied components actually come together?
The answer is the little-known “Level-IV”, a team of managers and engineers who molded separate elements of hardware into cohesive and safe payloads. Without the dedication and drive of the Level-IV team, the huge successes of the Spacelab missions would not have been achieved. This is their story.
You will learn herein how Level-IV was formed, who was involved, and the accomplishments, setbacks and problems faced along the way, in a story that blends both the professional and personal sides of Level-IV operations and its legacy. Upon reading this book, you will gain a new appreciation for this crucial team and understand what is meant when you hear the term “Level-IV”.

Review

“This is a long and very detailed book, often reading like a user’s manual, with chapters, for example, describing the buildings at the Kennedy Space Centre (KSC) ― including dimensioned drawings ― the overwhelming need to communicate is always present. … Haddad & Shayler have done a good job in getting the original voices of this dedicated team out into the public domain and as such have provided a valuable service to the history of space flight.” (Barry Kent, The Observatory, Vol. 142 (1291), December, 2022)

From the Back Cover

Spacelab was a reusable laboratory facility that was flown on the Space Shuttle from 1983 to 1998. Completing 22 major missions and contributing to many other NASA goals, Spacelab stands as one of the Shuttle program’s most resounding successes.
The system comprised multiple components, including a pressurized laboratory module, unpressurized carrier pallets and other related hardware, all housed in the Shuttle’s Payload Bay and crew compartment. But how did all those varied components actually come together?
The answer is the little-known “Level-IV”, a team of managers and engineers who molded separate elements of hardware into cohesive and safe payloads. Without the dedication and drive of the Level-IV team, the huge successes of the Spacelab missions would not have been achieved. This is their story.
You will learn herein how Level-IV was formed, who was involved, and the accomplishments, setbacks and problems faced along the way, in a story that blends both the professional and personal sides of Level-IV operations and its legacy. Upon reading this book, you will gain a new appreciation for this crucial team and understand what is meant when you hear the term “Level-IV”.

About the Author

Michael E. Haddad retired 2011 from NASA at Kennedy Space Center with 32 years of Flight and Ground systems engineering and operational experience. His responsibilities included hands-on processing for different classifications of flight hardware for: domestic and international payloads; Spacelab payloads, shuttle planetary, observatory and satellite class payloads such as Galileo, Ulysses, and Gamma Ray Observatory; TDRS communication satellites and Hubble Space Telescope. He was the KSC Point-of-Contact for Extravehicular Activities (EVA) & Crew Systems for International Space Station (ISS) and Constellation Program, as well as the integration engineer for the ISS Multi-Element Integrated Testing (MEIT). Haddad created On-Orbit Constraints Tests that verified interfaces between flight systems launched on different missions then assembled in space.
David J. Shayler has been following the shuttle operational story for over 30 years and in particular aspects of its relationship with space stations. He has prese

Release Date: 23-01-2022

Package Dimensions: 29x242x1161