Illustrations

1. John-David Bartoe and Loren Acton engrossed in training

2. Ulf Merbold

3. Byron Lichtenberg

4. Michael Lampton and Wubbo Ockels

5. Rick Chappell smiles for the camera

6. Marc Garneau on the flight deck

7. Marc Garneau and Paul Scully-Power

8. Marc Garneau bids farewell

9. Paul Scully-Power assists Mark Garneau

10. Spacelab 3 payload crew

11. Taylor Wang

12. Lodewijk van den Berg

13. Spacelab 2 backup payload specialists and prime crew members

14. Loren Acton and John-David Bartoe floating in their workstation

15. Spacelab D1 payload specialists

16. Ernst Messerschmid

17. Wubbo Ockels and Reinhard Furrer

18. Reinhard Furrer preparing for medical experiments

19. Maj. Gary Payton

20. Brett Watterson and Eric Sundberg

21. Ken Mattingly salutes photographers

22. Gary Payton on the flight deck

23. Space shuttle Enterprise stacked

24. Atlantis’s payload bay doors are opened

25. Bill Pailes

26. Jack Fischer and Eric Sundberg

27. Charlie Walker and Judy Resnik

28. Charlie Walker working his CFES experiment

29. Jake Garn

30. Jean-Loup Chrétien

31. Patrick Baudry

32. Prince Sultan Salman Abdulaziz Al-Saud

33. Charlie Walker and Robert Wood

34. Rodolfo Neri Vela

35. Rodolfo Neri Vela brought tortillas to space for the first time

36. Bob Cenker

37. Bill Nelson in “the bag”

38. Bill Nelson peels a grapefruit

39. Bob Cenker puts his engineering and mechanical skills to work

40. “The Hughes Astronauts”

41. Christa McAuliffe and Barbara Morgan meet the STS-51L crew

42. Barbara Morgan and Christa McAuliffe pause during training

43. Barbara Morgan and Christa McAuliffe listen as Greg Jarvis discusses his experiment

44. Sam Durrance, Ron Parise, and Ken Nordsieck

45. NASA administrator Dan Goldin greets Senator John Glenn

46. Ilan Ramon

47. Barbara Morgan floats in the middeck of the space shuttle Endeavour