As the shuttle program winds down, more astronauts may face similar disappointments. Final Countdown is a story of lost dreams, new hopes, and the ongoing conquest of space.

History of the US space shuttle programme and its first 100 missions

... criticism of the space shuttle program. The media was quick to condemn the failure and, as usual, ever slow to applaud the success of any government program. After hearing repeated statements by the uneducated—criticizing the shuttle in ...

... criticism of the Space Shuttle program for being highly oversold and impractical.4 NASA's promise that the operation of the Shuttle would be cost-effective had been not just an illusory dream but “delusionary,” as there was no way ...

... criticism of the space shuttle program along the lines of that which led to a stringing out of America's moonshot program - energy and money and resources need to be used against poverty and pollution and other earthside needs . Yet ...

Bold They Rise tells the story of the Space Shuttle through the personal experiences of the astronauts, engineers, and scientists who made it happen--in space and on the ground, from the days of research and design through the heroic ...

"Using interviews, NASA oral histories, and recently declassified material, [this book] reveals the dramatic untold story of the first space shuttle and the dedicated people who brought the United States into the next stage of space ...

Valerie Neal, who has spent much of her career examining the Space Shuttle program, uses this iconic vehicle to question over four decades’ worth of thinking about, and struggling with, the meaning of human spaceflight.

It was a dream come true. As a boy, Mullane could only read about space travel in science fiction, but the launch of Sputnik changed all that. Space flight became a possible dream and Mike Mullane set out to make it come true.