Bold They Rise: The Space Shuttle Early Years, 1972-1986 (Outward Odyssey: A People's History of S) (61 page)

STS
-61
A
(
Challenger
),
215–21

STS
-61
B
(
Atlantis
),
231
,
243
,
264–74
,
266
,
280

STS
-61
C
(
Columbia
),
271–78
,
297–98

STS
-61
F
(
Challenger
),
282–85

STS
-61
M
,
308

STS
-62
A
(
Discovery
),
279–82
,
313

Sullivan, Kathryn,
68
,
72
,
181
,
182–84
,
187

SYNCOM
-
IV
-1 (
LEASAT
-1),
189

SYNCOM
-
IV
-3 (
LEASAT
-3),
249–51
,
258–59
,
263–64

SYNCOM
-
IV
-4 (
LEASAT
-4),
262

Teacher in Space program,
246
,
276
.
See also
McAuliffe, Christa

Teal Ruby satellite,
281

TELESAT
-
H
satellite,
189

TFNG
(Thirty-Five New Guys),
54–74
; acceptance of,
62–64
; applications for,
54–59
; command issues and,
70–72
; interviews and examinations of,
59–62
; women in,
57
,
67–70
,
68
; work of, with
NASA
veterans,
64–67

Thagard, Norm,
12
,
61–64
,
75
,
156
,
159–60
,
164
,
207
,
208–10

thermal protection system,
44–47
,
45
,
52
,
89–91
,
107–8
,
117–18
,
131
,
136

Thompson, J. R.,
307

Thornton, Bill,
165
,
166
,
207
,
208–10

Titan rocket booster,
94

training,
8
,
11
,
16
,
57
,
72–74

Truly, Richard “Dick,”
14
,
65
,
81
,
115
,
117
,
120–25
,
132
,
165
,
305
,
306–8

Ulysses
probe,
282–84
,
313

van den Berg, Lodewijk,
12
,
207

Vandenberg Air Force Base,
279–82

van Hoften, James “Ox,”
173
,
174
,
176–78
,
177
,
258–59
,
261–64
,
299

Vela, Rodolfo Neri,
264
,
269

Walker, Charlie: launch experience of,
7
; reentry and landing experience of,
16–19
;
STS
-4 and,
231–32
;
STS
-6 and,
231
;
STS
-7 and,
231
;
STS
-8 and,
231
;
STS
-41
D
and,
230–34
,
235
,
236–37
,
245–46
;
STS
-51
D
and,
231
,
246–54
;
STS
-51
L
and,
295–96
,
312
;
STS
-61
B
and,
231
,
243
,
264
,
268–70

Walker, David,
188
,
192–94
,
283

Wang, Taylor,
12
,
207

Warner, John,
23

Watterson, Brett,
279
,
281

weightlessness.
See
zero gravity

Weitz, Paul,
8
,
149
,
154–55

WESTAR
-6 satellite,
173
,
188–95
,
195

White, Ed,
290

Williams, Don,
246
,
250

wind tunnel tests,
38–40
,
40

Young, John,
54
,
72
;
Apollo 16
and,
106
; crew assignments and,
156
; departure of, from
NASA
,
310
; shuttle design and,
44
,
48
; shuttle program approval and,
20
; simulators and,
78–79
;
STS
-1 and,
5
,
91
,
94
,
97
,
98
,
99
,
100–107
,
110–12
,
113
,
117–18
,
133
;
STS
-7 and,
164
;
STS
-9 and,
196
,
199–202
,
204–7
;
STS
-51
I
and,
260–61
;
STS
-61
F
and,
284
;
TFNG
s and,
58

zero gravity,
10–11
,
13
,
16–19
,
57

About the Authors

David Hitt
is the coauthor of
Homesteading Space: The Skylab Story
(Nebraska, 2008).
Heather R. Smith
has worked as an education writer for
NASA
.
Bob Crippen
is a
NASA
astronaut who piloted the first Space Shuttle flight.

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