Inside View of the Final Space Shuttle Launch
Check out the commentary and wonderful launch photos on Social Shutter on the final Space Shuttle launch by Adrienne Miller, a recent graduate in Sociology at Georgia State University.
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photo by Adrienne Miller - Explore more about the “Space Race” and NASA Space Shuttle Program in these Georgia State University Library resources:
- Logsdon, J. M. (2010). John F. Kennedy and the race to the moon. New York: Palgrave Macmillan. Explores the Kennedy Administration’s role in shaping the U.S. space program.
- Brzezinski, M. (2007). Red moon rising: Sputnik and the hidden rivalries that ignited the Space Age. New York: Times Books. Explores the sociopolitical issues surrounding the genesis of the “Space Race.”
- Weitekamp, M. A. (2004). Right stuff, wrong sex: America’s first women in space program. Baltimore, Md.: Johns Hopkins University Press. Explores the gender discrimination pervading the early NASA program.
- National Research Council (U.S.). Space Studies Board. (2010). Controlling cost growth of NASA Earth and space science missions. Washington, D.C.: National Academies Press. Report examining cost issues surrounding space missions – the primary attributed rationale for ending the Space Shuttle Program.
- Works exploring the Space Shuttle Challenger (1986) and Space Shuttle Columbia (2003) accidents.
- Over 500 online, print, and microfiche Government Documents documenting the technologies, triumphs, and tragedies of the Space Shuttle program.
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