Pat Duggins is news director at Alabama Public Radio and author of Final Countdown: NASA and the End of the Space Shuttle Program. He covered more than 100 space shuttle missions for NPR, starting with the 1986 Challenger accident and including three hours of live coverage following the 2003 loss of Columbia.
Prologue | p. 1 |
Mariner Sets Sail | p. 6 |
The Space Race to Mars | p. 21 |
Reheating the Leftovers of Apollo | p. 25 |
Viking, NASA's ôGold Bugö | p. 41 |
The Twenty-Year Gap | p. 59 |
The Shuttle's Long Good-bye | p. 81 |
Pioneers Past and Present | p. 106 |
The Moon, One Baby Step | p. 116 |
The New ôRight Stuffö | p. 135 |
Lessons from Biosphere 2 | p. 152 |
Plowing the ôBack 40ö on Mars | p. 159 |
Should NASA Go It Alone? | p. 171 |
Getting There, Living There | p. 187 |
Why Go at All? | p. 201 |
Epilogue | p. 211 |
Acknowledgments | p. 217 |
Notes | p. 219 |
Suggested Reading | p. 233 |
Index | p. 235 |
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