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About The Book
Top Secret/Do Not Photocopy
To: Strategic Defense Initiative Organization (SDIO)
From: U.S. Space Defense Operations Center, Colorado
Situation Report: Unmanned Soviet Kvant-3 space laboratory destroyed by defective U.S. Orbital Weapons Platform. Communications inoperative. Soviet retaliation imminent unless immediate action taken.
Target: U.S. Low-power Atmospheric Compensation Experiment (LACE)—the most powerful weapon in orbit. Equipped with SECRET hydrogen-fluoride, five megawatt chemical laser, LODE 4-meter firing mirror, and Teal Ruby AFP-888 aiming mechanism.
Current Status: 38 degree circular orbit at 130 nautical miles FULLY ARMED AND OUT OF CONTROL.
Operation: U.S. astronauts Colonel William Parker and Lt. Commander Jacob Enright to fly Space Shuttle Endeavor in mission to deactivate LACE.
Risk Factor: HIGH
Special Orders: In event of mission failure, U.S. shuttle crew to be terminated with EXTREME PREJUDICE.
Brief: Presidential briefing NOT RECOMMENDED.
Product Details
- Publisher: Taylor Trade Publishing (December 23, 2014)
- Length: 416 pages
- ISBN13: 9781589798458
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Raves and Reviews
The Glass Lady is a technical masterpiece and a great story. . . . There have been writers of the sea who were this good, but Douglas Savage has set the standard for the literature of spaceflight.
– Gordon Baxter, Contributing Editor, Flying Magazine
The Glass Lady is a technical masterpiece and a great story. . . . There have been writers of the sea who were this good, but Douglas Savage has set the standard for the literature of spaceflight.
– Gordon Baxter, Contributing Editor, Flying Magazine
The Glass Lady is a technical masterpiece and a great story. . . . There have been writers of the sea who were this good, but Douglas Savage has set the standard for the literature of spaceflight.
– Gordon Baxter, Contributing Editor, Flying Magazine
The Glass Lady is a technical masterpiece and a great story. . . . There have been writers of the sea who were this good, but Douglas Savage has set the standard for the literature of spaceflight.
– Gordon Baxter, Contributing Editor, Flying Magazine
[The Glass Lady] is written with exquisite attention to creating realistic shuttle operations, right down to detailing every switch and panel on the checklist. . . . [T]he reader flies the mission . . . as it is really flown.
– Richard Berry, Editor-in-Chief, Astronomy Magazine
[The Glass Lady] is written with exquisite attention to creating realistic shuttle operations, right down to detailing every switch and panel on the checklist. . . . [T]he reader flies the mission . . . as it is really flown.
– Richard Berry, Editor-in-Chief, Astronomy Magazine
[The Glass Lady] is written with exquisite attention to creating realistic shuttle operations, right down to detailing every switch and panel on the checklist. . . . [T]he reader flies the mission . . . as it is really flown.
– Richard Berry, Editor-in-Chief, Astronomy Magazine
[The Glass Lady] is written with exquisite attention to creating realistic shuttle operations, right down to detailing every switch and panel on the checklist. . . . [T]he reader flies the mission . . . as it is really flown.
– Richard Berry, Editor-in-Chief, Astronomy Magazine
[A] unique approach. . . . Thoroughly researched, the book describes the mechanical complexities of the Shuttle and the wonders of space. . . . There is interesting information here.
– Publishers Weekly
[A] unique approach. . . . Thoroughly researched, the book describes the mechanical complexities of the Shuttle and the wonders of space. . . . There is interesting information here.
– Publishers Weekly
[A] unique approach. . . . Thoroughly researched, the book describes the mechanical complexities of the Shuttle and the wonders of space. . . . There is interesting information here.
– Publishers Weekly
[A] unique approach. . . . Thoroughly researched, the book describes the mechanical complexities of the Shuttle and the wonders of space. . . . There is interesting information here.
– Publishers Weekly
To read The Glass Lady is to fly the Space Shuttle. The book is a remarkable achievement in the literature of flight.
– Allan Fritche, Editor, STS Mission Profiles Magazine
To read The Glass Lady is to fly the Space Shuttle. The book is a remarkable achievement in the literature of flight.
– Allan Fritche, Editor, STS Mission Profiles Magazine
To read The Glass Lady is to fly the Space Shuttle. The book is a remarkable achievement in the literature of flight.
– Allan Fritche, Editor, STS Mission Profiles Magazine
To read The Glass Lady is to fly the Space Shuttle. The book is a remarkable achievement in the literature of flight.
– Allan Fritche, Editor, STS Mission Profiles Magazine
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