Columbia - Final Voyage
This CD-ROM is a companion to the book "Columbia - Final Voyage" - published by Copernicus Books, an Imprint of Springer Science+Business Media in association with Praxis Publishing, Ltd.
ISBN 0-387-27148-1
Book Table of Contents
Foreword by Dr. Jonathan Clark - widower of Columbia astronaut Laurel Clark
Introduction by Apollo 11 astronaut Buzz Aldrin
Chapter 1 A Modest Mission
Part I Mission Makers
Chapter 2 Rick Husband: Boy from Amarillo
Chapter 3 Running Man: Willie McCool
Chapter 4 Dave Brown: Pilot, Doctor, Gymnast
Chapter 5 Kalpana Chawla: the Girl From India
Chapter 6 Mike Anderson: the Boy who Wanted to Fly
Chapter 7 Laurel Clark: Submarine Doctor, Mother
Chapter 8 Ilan Ramon: Israel's First Astronaut
Chapter 9 Dodging Bullets, The Astronauts Who Weren't Selected
Chapter 10 It Isn't Just the Astronauts
Part II The Long Road to Liftoff
Chapter 11 A NASA Primer
Chapter 12 Eighteen Delays
Chapter 13 Training for the Mission
Chapter 14 Presenting NASA to the World
Chapter 15 Prequel - The STS-112 Flight Readiness Review
Chapter 16 Prelaunch
Chapter 17 Launch Day
Chapter 18 Behind the Scenes
Chapter 19 Living in Space
Part III Sixteen Days Aloft
Chapter 20 FD2 - MEIDEX, Phab4, ARMS, ascent video
Chapter 21 FD3 - Calcium Kinetics, press interviews
Chapter 22 FD4 - LSP, Spacehab cooling
Chapter 23 FD5 - VCD
Chapter 24 FD6 - Sharon VIP call, MPFE, Internet Questions
Chapter 25 FD7 - MGM, Astroculture
Chapter 26 FD8 - SOFBALL, CIBX
Chapter 27 FD9 - STARS, FREESTAR
Chapter 28 FD10 - BDS, BRIC, OSTEO
Chapter 29 FD11 - ZCG, Biopack
Chapter 30 FD12 - ship-to-ship call, FRESH
Chapter 31 FD13 - Mist, Challenger anniversary, Biotube
Chapter 32 FD14 - press conference
Chapter 33 FD15 - MEIDEX, external Spacehab payloads
Chapter 34 FD16 - automated payloads, preparing to come home
Part IV February 1, 2003
Chapter 35 Reentry
Chapter 36 The Accident
Chapter 37 Mission Control on Landing Day
Chapter 38 What Should Have Happened
Chapter 39 The Media's Coverage of STS-107
Chapter 40 The First Hours After the Accident
Chapter 41 Viewing Columbia's Reentry
Chapter 42 Where Were You?
Chapter 43 The Public's Reaction
Part V The Aftermath
Chapter 44 The Search for Debris
Chapter 45 Other Evidence
Chapter 46 Completing the Investigation
Chapter 47 Kooks and Myths
Chapter 48 Was a Rescue Possible?
Chapter 49 Memorials to the Crew
Chapter 50 Legacy - The Science Not Lost
Afterword - STS-114 - The Shuttle Flies Again
Appendixes
Charities
The companion CD-ROM
Ordering the CD-ROM
E-mails from space
The STS-107 crew logo
The 18 delays to STS-107
Special Thanks
Bibliography
Glossary
Index
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