Sublime

Kaz spent the next morning watching the Apollo and Soyuz crews train on the spaceship docking system in Building 13.

“In recognition of your creative and original work on sophisticated rocket systems, for your contributions to the advancement of technology and ability to transform ideas into reality, and especially for your demonstrated courage and integrity for always standing on principles you know to be right and just.”

and Roger was absolutely sure that the condition observed on STS-51C was “a direct function of the cold temperature” on that launch.

fly. This was the first time that NASA personnel ever challenged a recommendation that was made that said it was unsafe to fly. The flight readiness review process was always structured around the contractors having to prove beyond a shadow of a doubt that their hardware was safe to fly.

Lockheed Martin, “Collaborative Human Immersive Laboratory,” http://www.lockheedmartin.com/us/products/chil.html.

Time-honored astronaut traditions make us feel we’re part of the tribe, and there were plenty of them during our final hours in quarantine.

It was the first time in my two-year career in the Shuttle program that we were experiencing a last-minute crisis of this magnitude just before a launch.