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After the Apollo program put twelve men on the moon and safely brought them home, anything seemed possible. In this spirit, the team at NASA set about developing the Space Shuttle, arguably the most complex piece of machinery ever created. The worlds first reusable spacecraft, it launched like a rocket, landed like a glider, and carried out complicated missions in between. Bold They Rise tells the story of the Space Shuttle through the personal experiences of the astronauts, engineers, and scientists who made it happenin space and on the ground, from the days of research and design through the heroic accomplishments of the program to the tragic last minutes of the Challenger disaster. In the participants own voices, we learn what so few are privy to: what it was like to create a new form of spacecraft, to risk ones life testing that craft, to float freely in the vacuum of space as a one-man satellite, to witness a friends death. A guided tour of the shuttlein historical, scientific, and personal termsthis book provides a fascinating, richly informed, and deeply personal view of a feat without parallel in the human story.
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Read this book to experience the Space Shuttle as it matured. Smith and Hitt tap sources that made this aerospace wonders early history. Youll feel the needs and wants of those involved; the joys and sadness that came with conceiving, building, and flying this vehicle. Its a tripI know.
Charles D. Walker, engineer, corporate executive, first commercial industry astronaut, STS -41 D , STS -51 D , STS -61 B
Although the shuttle program has now run its course, this wonderful book brings back the awe, the inspiration, the promise, and the sadness associated with the early history of those magnificent vehicles and the teams of ground and flight crews that flew them.
Jerry L. Ross (Col., USAF , Ret.), NASA astronaut, STS -61 B , -27, -37, -55, -74, -88, and -110, and author of Spacewalker: My Journey in Space and Faith as NASA s Record-Setting Frequent Flyer
A rich, engaging account of the first years of the Space Shuttle era, Bold They Rise recounts the development and pioneering missions of a truly magnificent flying machine that helped open the door to space for scienti STS such as myself.
Donald A. Thomas, NASA astronaut, STS -65, STS -70, STS -83, and STS -94
Bold They Rise
Outward Odyssey A Peoples History of Spaceflight
Series editor Colin Burgess
Bold They Rise
The Space Shuttle Early Years, 19721986
David Hitt and Heather R. Smith | Foreword by Bob Crippen
University of Nebraska Press Lincoln and London
2014 by the Board of Regents of the University of Nebraska
Cover image courtesy NASA
All rights reserved
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Hitt, David.
Bold they rise: the space shuttle early years, 19721986 / David Hitt and Heather R. Smith; foreword by Bob Crippen.
pages cm.(Outward odyssey. A peoples history of spaceflight)
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 978-0-8032-2648-7 (hardcover: alk. paper) ISBN 978-0-8032-5549-4 (epub) ISBN 978-0-8032-5556-2 (mobi) ISBN 978-0-8032-5548-7 (pdf (web))
1. Space Shuttle Program (U.S.) 2. Space shuttlesUnited StatesHistory. 3. Manned space flightHistory. I. Smith, Heather R. II. Title. III. Title: Space shuttle early years, 19721986.
TL 795.5. H 58 2014
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The publisher does not have any control over and does not assume any responsibility for author or third-party websites or their content.
To Finn, Caden, Bethany, Nathan, Lillian, Lila Grace, Will, Baxter, Amelia, Andrew, Peyton, Sabrina, Kean, Elliott, Rhys, Daniel, Lainey, and millions of other children who will be the ones to carry on the exploration of tomorrow.
They venture forth, into the spangled night
Lured inexorably by dreams;
With vision
And resolve
To go beyond the quest of yesterday
Bold they rise, these winged emissaries
To wonders transcendent;
With audacity
And faith
In the divine promise of tomorrow.
Colin Burgess, Bold They Rise
Contents
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Foreword
After John Young and I made the first flight of the Space Shuttle aboard Columbia all those years ago, people would sometimes ask me what the best part of the flight was. I would always use Johns classic answer: The part between takeoff and landing.
Now that its all said and done, I think that describes what the best part of the Space Shuttle program was: the part between our first launch in April 1981 and the last landing in July 2011.
There were some low points in between, particularly the loss of both of the orbiters I had the privilege to fly and their crews, but as a whole I think the shuttle has been one of the most marvelous vehicles that has ever gone into spacea fantastic vehicle unlike anything thats ever been built.
The Space Shuttle has carried hundreds of people into space and delivered hundreds of tons of payloads into space. The shuttle gave us the Galileo and Magellan probes, which opened our eyes to new worlds, and it let us not only launch the Hubble Space Telescope but also repair and upgrade it time and time again, and Hubble has revolutionized our understanding of not only our solar system but the entire universe. The shuttle carried a lot of classified military payloads early on that probably helped the United States win the Cold War.
The Space Shuttle let us build the International Space Station. The Space Station is an incredible accomplishment, a marvelous complex, but it was the Space Shuttle that taught us that we could build a complicated space vehicle and make it work very well. The Space Station would not have been possible without the Space Shuttle.
But in those early days, I think the shuttle did something else, a little less concrete but just as important. The late 70s and early 80s werent really a great time for the United States. Wed basically lost the Vietnam War. Wed been through economic hard times, through the hostage crisis in Iran. President Reagan was shot just before our flight on STS -1. And morale for a lot of people in the country was really low. People were feeling like things just werent going right for us.
And that first flight, it was obvious that it was a big deal. It was a big thing for NASA , but it was a big thing for the country. It wasnt just our accomplishment at NASA ; it was an American accomplishment. It was a morale booster for the United States. It was a rallying point for the American people. And the awareness may not be as high now as it was then, but I think thats still true today. I think you saw that when the shuttle made its last flight; the pride people had in what it had accomplished and the fact that a million people watched it. When I talk to people, they think space exploration is something we need to be doing, for the future of the United States and humankind.
The retirement of the shuttle was kind of bittersweet for me. Im proud of all its accomplished, and Im sorry to see it end. But I believe in moving on. Id like to see us get out of Earth orbit and go back to the moon, and to other destinations, and eventually to Mars.
John and I got to see a lot of the development of the Space Shuttle firsthand. As astronauts, we were involved from an operations standpoint, and as the first crew, John and I visited the sites where they were working on the shuttle, getting it ready to fly. We had an outstanding, dedicated team, people who really believed they were doing something important for the nation. When we finally got into the shuttle for that first flight, meeting those thousands of people gave me a lot of confidence that we had a good vehicle to fly on.
I never expected to be selected for that first flight. I thought they would pick someone more experienced to fly with John. I was excited that they picked me, and I was honored to be a part of that flight. All told, that flight was the beginning of something truly amazing, and Im honored to be one of the thousands of people who made it happen.
Bob Crippen
Preface
When I (David) first became involved in the Outward Odyssey series, working on the Skylab volume, my coauthors and I were shown a list of proposed titles for the first eight books in the series. As authors working on our first book, coming up with a title seemed like one of the more exciting parts of the job. We were thus somewhat pleased to be disappointed with the working title the publisher had provided: Exemplary Outpost. It was an accurate title, but it lacked the poetry of the other titles on the listtitles like Into That Silent Sea and In the Shadow of the Moon . Im not sure that we quite lived up to that standard with Homesteading Space , but we made our best effort.
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