Cold Beans Out of a Can: From Teenage Aircraft Mechanic and Pilot to Apollo Engineer 9781937650995

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Автор: Smith Harvey
Название: Cold Beans Out of a Can: From Teenage Aircraft Mechanic and Pilot to Apollo Engineer
ISBN: 9781937650995
Издательство: Small Batch Books
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Биографии: общее жизнеописание

Аэрокосмические и авиационные транспортные средства и перевозки

Космическая наука

ISBN-10: 1937650995
Обложка/Формат: Paperback
Страницы: 130
Вес: 0.25 кг.
Дата издания: 25.09.2019
Язык: English
Иллюстрации: 19 illustrations
Размер: 229 x 152 x 9
Читательская аудитория: General (us: trade)
Подзаголовок: From teenage aircraft mechanic and pilot to apollo engineer
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Поставляется из: США
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Cold Beans Out of a Can is the story of one mans unconventional path to becoming an engineer and department head on the Apollo moon project. From his childhood in rural Massachusetts, where, as a teenager, he trained as an aircraft mechanic and pilot, to his role heading up fifty design engineers working on the life-support backpack that would accompany astronauts to the moon, Smiths story is a glimpse into the myriad details and heroic effort that went into Americas success in winning the race to the moon fifty years ago.

In a style both folksy and informative, Smith describes how he started working on and flying airplanes at age fifteen, attending aircraft mechanics school while pumping gas at night and subsisting primarily on beans out of a can. After graduation, Smith worked as an FAA-licensed aircraft mechanic, performing major structural repairs, engine overhauls, and airworthiness inspections, at one point sawing a glider in half and welding it back together. Later, he went on to college, where he studied aeronautical engineering, landing a job at a high-tech startup specializing in jet-engine thrust, before finally going to work on the Apollo program at Hamilton Standard, a NASA subcontractor.

Along the way, Smith had plenty of adventures, both in the air and on the ground, culminating in the controlled chaos of the Apollo program, where his division succeeded in producing a life-support system that astronaut Rusty Schweickart would test for the first time in space and that Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin would use just four months later, when Apollo 11 set down on the moon.

Cold Beans Out of a Can: From Teenage Aircraft Mechanic and Pilot to Apollo Engineer, Smith Harvey