Offers a comprehensive overview of NASA's Space Shuttle program, profiling its major, and tragic, missions, and explaining why the program is experiencing a rapid demise at the start of the twenty-first century.
Describes the advances in space travel that have been made since 1957, tells of successes and failures, and attempts to predict the direction that future space flight and space settlement efforts may take.
Brief text with supplementary questions and answers discuss various aspects of the space shuttle, such as lift-off, satellite launching, establishing space stations, and the history of winged rockets.
Follows the development of the space shuttle program from the early years up to the twenty-first century, covering construction of the shuttle, take-off, missions in space, reentry, and landing.
Presents the history and development of the space shuttle and other reusable launch vehicles since President Nixon approved the program in 1972 and provides information on the Columbia, the Challenger disaster in 1986, and the future of space travel.
Examines what it is like for the crews living and working on American space shuttles and discusses the life of the Russian space station Mir and plans for an international space station.
Three specialists investigate when a space shuttle returns to Earth after a disappearance of ten years with its pilot mentally deranged, the rest of its crew missing, and with Martian sand in its landing gear.
