HOW TO MAKE THE SPACE PROGRAM SOAR AGAIN

摘要

Remember when the little Sojourner rover chugged over the red soil of Mars? It was the summer of 1997, and pictures from the mission rekindled America's romance with space exploration. Compare that excitement to the public's indifference toward NASA'S space shuttle. Until the Columbia and its seven crew members met their terrible end, how many people actually were aware that the spacecraft was in orbit―or cared much what it was doing?