![[(Space Shuttle: The History of the National Space Transportation System - 3rd Edition)] [Author: Dennis R Jenkins] published on (April, 2001)](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1697967377l/122917659.jpg)
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Space Shuttle
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The shuttle would announce its arrival with the trademark double sonic boom-- Boom, BOOM!!-- and shortly thereafter you could see the bright silvery craft dropping from the sky. Space enthusiasm in the state has dimmed somewhat sine the final return of the Space Shuttle on July 21, 2011, but even now, there are traffic jams on the access roads whenever a launch is scheduled. If you are within five miles of the launch site, the sky lights up, the ground rumbles, the crowds cheer, and waves of unr
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― A Florida State of Mind: An Unnatural History of Our Weirdest State
― A Florida State of Mind: An Unnatural History of Our Weirdest State
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Together the five orbiters Columbia, Challenger, Discovery, Atlantis, and Endeavour have flown a total of 133 successful missions, an unequaled accomplishment of engineering, management, and political savvy. But it's the two disasters that people remember, that most shape the shuttle's story. The lovely dream of spaceflight I grew up with is marred by the images of Challenger and Columbia breaking apart in the sky, the lost astronauts smiling on hopefully in their portraits, oblivious. Some peop
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― Leaving Orbit: Notes from the Last Days of American Spaceflight
― Leaving Orbit: Notes from the Last Days of American Spaceflight
