Naval Research Laboratory / RCA / McDonnell Douglas / Western Union / Hughes Aircraft Company / WESTAR / /
Continent
America / Europe / /
Country
Canada / United Kingdom / India / Germany / West Germany / United States / Columbia / /
Currency
USD / /
Event
Person Communication and Meetings / Natural Disaster / Environmental Issue / /
Facility
Vandenberg Air Force Base / University of Tennessee College / Kennedy Space Center / Edwards Air Force Base / Space Transportation System / LDEF facility / Goddard Space Flight Center / Naval Research Laboratory / Mission Control Center / Massachusetts Institute of Technology / /
IndustryTerm
energy levels / transportation system linking / radar imaging experiments / aerospace engineering / communication satellite payloads / air pollution measuring devices / launch site / main electronics / real-time voice / comparative satellite launch costs / pound satellite / aerospace vehicle / ground control network / energy / a device / satellite communications network / communications system / television communications / hydrogen gas leaks / computer software / communications hardware / public relations problem / pharmaceutical product / large commercial communications satellites / public relations consciousness / flight software development / shuttle pallet satellite / communications satellite / scientific satellite / communications satellites / communications net / /
NaturalFeature
Atlantic ocean / Pacific ocean / Cape Kennedy / bay of Columbia / /
Organization
European Space Agency / Massachusetts Institute of Technology / STS-3 mission / Mission Control Center / Apollo-Soyuz mission / Air Force / University of Tennessee College of Medicine / Indonesian Government / office of Space Science and Applications / MIT / office of Space and Terrestrial Applications / Congress / Kennedy Space Center / Shuttle mission / National Aeronautics and Space Administration / Department of Defense / Stanford / Goddard Space Flight Center / /
Person
Steven A. Hawley / Sally K. Ride / Frederick C. Hauck / Anna Fisher / Helmut Kohl / Gemini / Robert Lee (Hoot) Gibson / Sultan Al-Saud / Apollo Launch / Henry S.F. Cooper / John M. Fabian / Marc Garneau / George D. Nelson / Vela / Edwin (Buzz) Aldrin / James Lovell / Bruce McCandless / Guion Bluford / Kathryn D. Sullivan / Hans Mark / Paul Scully-Power / Charles D. Walker / Cook / Henry Hudson / Robert L. Crippen / Neil Armstrong / Christa McAuliffe / Joseph P. Loftus / Barbara Morgan / Garn / William F. Fisher / James D. van Hoften / Ronald Reagan / Donald H. Peterson / Bob Stewart / Margaret Rhea Seddon / Norman Thagard / /
Position
Captain / President / first black astronaut / Chancellor / payload specialist / pilot / astronaut / specially designed locking Astronaut / permitting author / Teacher / Assistant Director / Deputy Administrator / reporter / Mission specialist / runner-up / /
CHAPTER 15: The Shuttle at Work T he launch of STS-5 (Columbia) on November 11, 1982, brought to an end the politically and fiscally sensitive interlude between the Apollo-Soyuz mission in 1975 and the first Shuttle te