Grumman / Thiokol / National Space Technology Laboratory / Rockwell / Space Shuttle Orbiter Project / Space Task Group / McDonnell Douglas / Ace Moving Company / Martin Marietta / General Dynamics/ Convair / International Business Machines / Shuttle Avionics Integration Laboratory / American Airlines / Lockheed Space Operations Company / Nixon / Space Shuttle Columbia / /
Continent
America / Europe / /
Country
United States / Vietnam / Columbia / /
Currency
USD / /
Event
Company Expansion / /
Facility
Vandenberg Air Force Base / Johnson Space Center / Earth-orbiting station / Mir Dock / To garner / John C. Stennis Space Center / Dryden Flight Research Center / Orbiter Processing Facility / Edwards Air Force Base / Space Transportation System / Rocketdyne’s California facility / National Space Technology Laboratory / Engineering Demonstration Challengerr Department of Defense Classified Flight Observatory / Vehicle Assembly Building / Shuttle Avionics Integration Laboratory / Marshall Space Flight Center / Air Force Plant / Manned Spacecraft Center / /
IndustryTerm
space travel / scientific and aerospace leaders / computer giant / transport equipment / satellite repair / joint space transportation committee / satellite deployments / flight software / launch services / propulsion systems / air-to-ground communications / unproven technology / flight hardware / civilian and military applications / computer software error / /
NaturalFeature
Mojave Desert / /
Organization
US Air Force / Marshall Space Flight Center / Manned Spacecraft Center / House / office of Management and Budget / Dryden Flight Research Center / Rocketdyne Division of Rockwell / Senate / John C. Stennis Space Center / Engineering Demonstration Challengerr Department of Defense Classified Flight Observatory / Air Force / Smithsonian / Crippen’s mission / Dryden Flight Research Center on the Edwards Air Force Base / Congress / Kennedy Space Center / Nixon administration / White House / federal government / National Aeronautics and Space Administration / Department of Defense / Johnson Space Center / /
Person
William Clinton / William Lenoir / Richard Nixon / Robert Thompson / Aaron Cohen / Ross-Nazzal Dennis Webb Astronauts John Young / Thomas Mattingly / Yuri Gagarin / Astronauts Mattingly / Robert Crippen / James Carter / Milestones Jennifer Ross-Nazzal Dennis / James Fletcher / Loren Shriver / Nancy Reagan / James Kingsbury / Thomas Paine / Christopher Kraft / Richard Richard / Walter Mondale / Maxime Faget / George George / Kirk / Gerald Ford / Joseph Allen / Ronald Reagan / Henry Hartsfield / Bush / / /
Position
Captain / spokesman / President / Engines contractor / payload specialist / contractor / administrator / Major / astronaut / Program manager / manager / electrical engineer / astronaut support pilot / director of engineering and development / flight test engineer / director of Science and Engineering / physicist / director / commander / balsa wood model / /
Product
Crew / Boeing 747 / Shuttle / Lockheed C-5A / Apollo / Challenger / Space Shuttle Program / STS / /
ProvinceOrState
Hancock County / Alabama / Mississippi / California / Texas / Florida / /
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