Texas A&M University / Edwards Air Force Base / Russian space station Mir / Space Transportation System / Russia’s Mir space station / Mir space station / Statue of Liberty / Kennedy Space Center / /
IndustryTerm
space hardware / /
NaturalFeature
Mojave Desert / Rogers Dry Lake / /
Organization
Kennedy Space Center / NASA’s Johnson Space Center / Wildlife Committee / STS-71 mission / National Aeronautics and Space Administration / Texas A&M University / Space Achievement Foundation / Solar Maximum Mission / /
Person
Bruce McCandless II / Brad Thomas / Eileen M. Collins / Sally K. Ride / John W. Young / Stephanie Walker / Robert L. Crippen / Andy Ideler / /
Position
Astronaut / co-chairperson / commander / pilot / flight crew systems manager / first woman pilot / /
400,000 feet above Earth. At this point, Columbia was about 4,390 miles from the Edwards landing strip in California. At 151,000 feet, traveling more than eight times the speed of sound, Crippen saw coastline ahead. “W