Episode Links:
Ch. 15 Return to Flight: Richard H. Truly and the Recovery from the Challenger Accident. The Rogers Commission Report (https://history.nasa.gov/SP-4219/Chapter15.html#Chapt15-29)
Office of Commercial Space Transportation (https://www.faa.gov/about/office_org/headquarters_offices/ast/about/faq/#p1)
This is an interesting breakdown of what the Shuttle Discovery accomplished during its lifetime.
Shuttle Discovery By-the-Numbers: Nearly 27 Years as NASA's Space Workhorse (https://www.space.com/10938-space-shuttle-discovery-legacy-numbers.html)
Background reading for this episode:
Developing the Space Shuttle (https://history.nasa.gov/sts1/pdfs/explore.pdf)
The Space Station: A Personal Journey (https://books.google.com/books?id=DtEH8mySnVwC&lpg=PA67&ots=wmCZJx634S&dq=space%20shuttle%20truck%20nixon&pg=PA67#v=onepage&q=space%20shuttle%20truck%20nixon&f=false)
