The Daily Press is looking for people who have played a role in NASA's Space Shuttle program. With the shuttles soon going into retirement, the newspaper is putting together a special section devoted to the program's development, particularly the work done at NASA Langley Research Center in Hampton.
One of my best days as a substitute teacher involved a 7th grade social studies class that was studying John F. Kennedy. When we got to Kennedy's moon challenge, the students really responded well when I ad libed that much of the design work and training for the moon missions and the shuttle was done just up the road in Hampton. NASA Langley also played a significant role in determining what went wrong in the final missions of the shuttles Challenger and Columbia.
The shuttle Atlantis is scheduled to begin NASA's final shuttle mission July 8th.
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Information about the Daily Press shuttle commemoration.
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