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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
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
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
Revisiting space literature from the late 1970s still turns up many surprises and alternate histories of an age yet to come One case in point

STS 5 crew walkout November 11 1982 Front from left PLT Robert Overmyer and CDR Vance Brand Back from left MS Bill Lenoir George Abbey

USAF Major Robert H Lawrence in an undated LIFE photo Lawrence 8217 s life and career would leave resonances despite both being cut painfully short

NASA photo Feb 1974 8220 Scientist astronaut Edward G Gibson science pilot for the Skylab 4 mission demonstrates the effects of zero gravity as he

NASA photo 1973 8220 Astronaut Paul J Weitz pilot for Skylab 2 first Skylab manned mission looks over off duty recreational equipment in the crew

8220 The Apollo Saturn V 500F Facilities Test vehicle after conducting the VAB stacking operations rolls out of the VAB on its way to

8220 An overhead view of the Skylab space station cluster in Earth orbit as photographed from the Skylab 4 Command and Service Modules CSM

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