Book Review: Ascension
Category: Nonfiction Reviewed by: Douglas G. Adler Title: Ascension: Life Lessons from the Space Shuttle Columbia Tragedy for Engineers, Managers,
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Category: Nonfiction Reviewed by: Douglas G. Adler Title: Ascension: Life Lessons from the Space Shuttle Columbia Tragedy for Engineers, Managers, and Leaders Author: Steven Hirshorn
Category: Nonfiction Reviewed by: Susan Raizer Title: Mission: An American Congressman’s Voyage to Space Author: Bill Nelson Format: Paperback/Kindle Pages: 317 Publisher: University of Florida
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This Space Available, By Emily Carney. By the mid-1970s, Space Shuttle development was in full swing, even though the Space Transportation System wouldn’t fly until
This Space Available, by Emily Carney. A sweep of 1970s NASA images reveals treasures chronicling the early development of the Space Shuttle program, which required
This Space Available, By Emily Carney. In late 1974, NASA was already laying the groundwork for its next big space endeavor, the Space Shuttle. The
This Space Available by Emily Carney. The shuttle program, once a symbol of America’s technological might, is frequently a subject of think pieces that depict
This Space Available, by Emily Carney. Fred Haise may be best known as the Apollo 13 lunar module pilot who, along with crew mates Jim
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USAF Major Robert H. Lawrence in an undated LIFE photo. Lawrence’s life and career would leave resonances, despite both being cut painfully short. There
NASA photo, Feb. 1974: “Scientist-astronaut Edward G. Gibson, science pilot for the Skylab 4 mission, demonstrates the effects of zero-gravity as he sails through airlock
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