Wheels Stop: The Tragedies and Triumphs of the Space Shuttle Program, 1986–2011 by Rick Houston, Jerry Ross

Wheels Stop: The Tragedies and Triumphs of the Space Shuttle Program, 1986–2011

Outward Odyssey: A People's History of Spaceflight

Rick Houston, Jerry Ross

456 pages first pub 2013 (editions)

nonfiction history science adventurous informative inspiring slow-paced

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Humanity’s first reusable spacecraft and the most complex machine ever built, NASA’s Space Shuttle debuted with great promise and as a dependable source of wonder and national pride. But with the Challenger catastrophe in 1986, the whole Space Shu...

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