Book Review: Return to Launch
Category: Nonfiction Reviewed by: Casey Suire Title: Return to Launch: Florida and America’s Space Industry Author: Stephen C. Smith Format:
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“Who wears short shorts? We wear short shorts.” Sally Ride, sans short shorts, on the space shuttle Challenger’s flight deck. NASA photo. It’s hard for...
NASA has released images of Endeavour and the ISS. They were taken by Paolo Nespoli from TMA-20 as the Russian spacecraft departed on 23 May....
Frank Borman is serious business, 1963. Life magazine photo. This month’s issue of Popshifter is dedicated to all things sci-fi and is brilliantly titled “Climb...
This picture is kind of a cop-out, because it never happened in real life. But, keep on reading. NASA portrait, late 1960s – early 1970s....
STS-134 launch from balloon at approximately 100,000 feet. The balloon was a student-coordinated project. Photo credit by Quest for Stars, a non-profit educational organization, in...
Launch Image Credit: NASA TV The Space Shuttle Endeavour began its final mission to the International space station with a perfect launch at 1256 UTC...
Endeavour at T-Minus 6 Hours Image Credit: NASA TV The launch of Endeavour was scrubbed today due to a failed heater in the APU (Auxiliary...
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