"Spanning 30 years and 135 missions, the space shuttle program was a crucial and extraordinary era of US space travel, and author and space shuttle astronaut Tom Jones interviewed more than 130 fellow astronauts to create its definitive oral history. This striking volume features 640 photos from the NASA archives, and each flight profile includes data about the mission, crew, launch, landing, duration, and highlights, followed by an immersive astronaut narrative. These anecdotes capture distinctive astronaut experiences such as standig on the brink of the vast universe during spacewalks, floating weightless and laughing while spilling food and knocking into fellow astronauts, observing the growth of crystals in microgravity, listening to jazz while taking in Earth's glow before falling asleep, and so much more, The beautifully illustrated Space Shuttle Stories offers an emotional and human perspective on spaceflight."--Back cover.
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