Author Lawrence Korb's New Book "Memories of the Apollo and Space Shuttle Programs" is the Fascinating First Hand Account of the Author's Time Spent Immersed in NASA
Recent release "Memories of the Apollo and Space Shuttle Programs" from Page Publishing author Lawrence Korb is a memoir that contains over four decades of involvement in the space program and assorted consultant positions.
ORANGE, Calif., July 19, 2018 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- Lawrence Korb, a engineering supervisor of Metals and Producibility on the Apollo Program, has completed his new book "Memories of the Apollo and Space Shuttle Programs": an intriguing behind the scenes look at one of the most fascinating fields in the world, Aerospace.
Published by New York City-based Page Publishing, Lawrence Korb's informative and enlightening tale has spent 45 years in the aerospace field as an engineer, engineering supervisor, and later as a consultant to the Space Shuttle Program. He was as engineering supervisor of Metals and Producibility on the Apollo Program, engineering supervisor of Metals and later engineering supervisor of the Thermal Protection System Materials on the Space Shuttle Program. He was a member of Panel 10 (Analysis of Fracture Areas), investigating the Apollo fire in 1967 (Apollo 204 Review Board), and a member of the NASA Hardware Forensic Team investigating the loss of the Space Shuttle Columbia (Columbia Accident Investigation Board) in 2003.
He has written chapters on materials in books on stainless steels, corrosion of manned spacecraft, advanced composite materials, material selection, and welding of the Space Shuttle Crew Module. He was co-chairman of the ASM Corrosion Handbook. He has given over sixty lectures in the aerospace field, including shipboard lectures, lectures at universities, and published more than twenty papers.
In his assignment as engineering supervisor, he was responsible for conducting the failure analysis of more than 1,200 failures that occurred in the development, acceptance testing, or in service of the Apollo and Space Shuttle Programs.
Readers who wish to experience this intriguing work can purchase "Lawrence Korb" at bookstores everywhere, or online at the Apple iTunes store, Kobo, Amazon, Google Play or Barnes and Noble.
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