I haven't read the author's famous Vulcan 607, although I've been told about it so many times that I might as well have done. The upside of my literary inadequacy is that Into The Black is reviewed here on its own merits, not by comparison with its predecessor. It is exceptional. Written in a style somewhere between that of a thriller and an historical narrative, the book begins back in 1962 with a record-breaking Phantom flight by a test pilot who was later to fly the first Space Shuttle mission. It continues through the shuttle's long development to the conclusion of that first trip into space. There was considerable doubt over whether the shuttle would return from orbit without catastrophe after several of its heat-resistant tiles, vital to successful re-entry, were lost during launch and climb into orbit. White unfolds the drama from the viewpoints of the astronauts and engineers involved, many of whom he interviewed for the book.
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机译：我没有读过作者着名的Vulcan 607，尽管已经被告知很多次，我可能也做过。我的文学不足之处在于，《 Into The Black》是根据其自身优点进行审查的，而不是与其前作进行比较。这是例外。该书的创作风格介于惊悚片和历史叙事之间，始于1962年，当时试飞员创造了破纪录的幻影飞行记录，后来他执行了第一次航天飞机飞行任务。从航天飞机的长远发展一直持续到第一次太空之旅结束。对于航天飞机是否会从灾难中返回而没有灾难性存在很大的疑问，因为它的几枚对成功重返至关重要的耐热瓷砖在发射和爬升过程中丢失了。怀特从涉及的宇航员和工程师的角度展现了戏剧，他为本书采访了许多人。
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