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LDEF (Artificial satellite)

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• Reusable space vehicles
• Scientific satellites

• Long-Duration Exposure Facility (Artificial satellite)
• Long Duration Exposure Facility

• The Long Duration Exposure Facility (LDEF): Mission 1 Experiments, ed. by Lenwood G. Clark, William H. Kinar, David J. Carter, and James L. Jones (illustrated HTML at NASA)

Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.

• Reusable Launch Vehicle: Technology Development and Test Program (1995), by National Research Council Aeronautics and Space Engineering Board (page images with commentary at NAP)
• The Lower Tiers of the Space Transportation Industrial Base (OTA-BP-ISS-161; Washington: GPO, 1995), by United States Congress Office of Technology Assessment
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • PDF files with commentary at Princeton

• The National Space Transportation Policy: Issues for Congress (OTA-ISS-620; 1995), by United States Congress Office of Technology Assessment
  • PDF at unt.edu
  • page images at HathiTrust

• Space Shuttle (1976), by Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center (illustrated HTML at NASA)
• Protecting the Space Shuttle From Meteoroids and Orbital Debris, by National Research Council Aeronautics and Space Engineering Board (page images and partial HTML at NAP)
• The Space Shuttle at Work, by Howard Allaway (illustrated HTML at NASA)

• Truth, Lies, and O-Rings: Inside the Space Shuttle Challenger Disaster (Gainesville, FL et al.: University Press of Florida, c2009), by Allan J. McDonald, contrib. by James R. Hansen (page images at HathiTrust)

• Reducing Launch Operation Costs: New Technologies and Practices (OTA-TM-ISC-28; 1988), by United States Congress Office of Technology Assessment (page images at HathiTrust)

• Upgrading the Space Shuttle, by National Research Council Aeronautics and Space Engineering Board (page images and partial HTML at NAP)

• The Space Shuttle Decision: NASA's Search for a Reusable Space Vehicle, by T. A. Heppenheimer (illustrated HTML at NASA)

• Toward a History of the Space Shuttle: An Annotated Bibliography (2 volumes; Washington: National Aeronautics and Space Administration, 1992-2012), by Roger D. Launius, Aaron K. Gillette, Malinda K. Goodrich, Alice R. Buchalter, and Patrick M. Miller
  • Part 1 (1954-1991): PDF at NASA
  • Part 2 (1992-2011): multiple formats with commentary at NASA

• Engineering and the Advancement of Human Welfare: 10 Outstanding Achievements, 1964-1989, by National Academy of Engineering (page images with commentary at NAP)

• The Landsat Tutorial Workbook: Basics of Satellite Remote Sensing (Washington: NASA, 1982), by Nicholas M. Short (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Star Splitters: The High Energy Astronomy Observatories, by Wallace H. Tucker (illustrated HTML at NASA)