TABLE OF CONTENTS CHAPTER 1 To Space and Back 5 CHAPTER 2 The Enterprise Orbiter 11 CHAPTER 3 From Trailblazing to Tragedy 15 CHAPTER Ч The Challenger Disaster 21 PERSON OF IMPACT Sally Ride 26 CHAPTER 5 Satellites Spacecraft and Discovery 29 CHAPTER Б Atlantis and Space Exploration 35 FOCUS ON TECHNOLOGY The Glass Cockpit 38 CHAPTER 7 The Last Shuttle 41 Focus on the Space Shuttle Missions 46 Glossary 47 To Learn More 48 Index 48
CHAPTER 1 TO SPACE AND BACK BY the early 1970s astronauts had landed on the moon and studied its surface Many people thought space exploration would soon end But scientists were just beginning to explore space In 1972 US President Richard Nixon signed a bill that gave 5 5 million to the National Aeronautics and Space Administration NASA This organization had been created in 1958 to control the United States activity in space Astronauts aboard a space shuttle took this photo of Earth 1990 in
