Shuttle Down
1981
First Published
3.50
Average Rating
224
Number of Pages
Space Shuttle Atlantis launches on a polar orbit flight from Vandenberg Air Force Base in Southern California. During the launch, the main engines cut off prematurely and the shuttle is forced to make an emergency landing on Rapa Nui, better known to most of the world as Easter Island.Landing is just the start of the problems for NASA, who now have to deal with the immense technological challenge of getting the shuttle back home, as well as many political problems.
Avg Rating
3.50
Number of Ratings
50
5 STARS
18%
4 STARS
26%
3 STARS
46%
2 STARS
8%
1 STARS
2%
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Authors
Lee Correy
Author · 4 books
Pseudonym for G. Harry Stine.
G. Harry Stine
Author · 16 books
Stine attended the University of Colorado in Boulder. Upon his graduation he went to work at White Sands Proving Grounds, first as a civilian scientist and then, from 1955–1957, at the U.S. Naval Ordnance Missile Test Facility as head of the Range Operations Division. Stine and his wife Barbara were friends of author Robert A. Heinlein, who sponsored their wedding, as Harry's parents were dead and Barbara's mother too ill to travel. Several of Heinlein's books are dedicated one or both of them, most particularly Have Space Suit - Will Travel. Stine also wrote science articles for Popular Mechanix. G. Harry Stine also used these alternative names: Lee Correy, Harry Stine, George Harry Stine.
