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Pat @patl@pnw.zone
If you're interested in space travel, or grew up in the Shuttle era like I did, or just love a well told nonfiction history, read this book. https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/5578763966
www.goodreads.comPat Loughery's review of Bringing Columbia Home5/5: Earlier this spring my teenage son and I had the privilege of attending the once-monthly Launch Director Tour of the Spaced Shuttle Atlantis while at Kennedy Space Center on Cape Canaveral, Florida. The tour was led by Michael Leinbach, who had retired a decade before as the Launch Director responsible for about the last 1/3 of Shuttle launches before the program ended. Leinbach was also launch Director for the Columbia for its final mission, which saw heat dissipating tiles fall and damage the leading edge of Columbia's left wing, rendering it vulnerable on re-entry. Columbia and its crew ...