The space shuttle: a mission-by-mission celebration of NASA's extraordinary spaceflight program

Preface

Introduction

Approach and landing tests : ALT-12 (free flight 1) to ALT-16 (free flight 5)

First launch -> the Challenger tragedy : STS-1 (mission 1) to STS-51L (mission 25)

New beginnings -> Hubble deployment : STS-26 (mission 26) to STS-61 (mission 59)

Shuttle-Mir missions -> John Glenn's return to space : STS-60 (mission 60) to STS-95 (mission 92)

The International Space Station construction begins -> the Columbia tragedy : STS-88 (mission 93) to STS-107 (mission 113)

A second return to flight -> the final mission : STS-114 (mission 114) to STS-135 (mission 135)

Afterword.