Excerpted from the book, ‘The Father, Son and Holy Shuttle: Growing up an Astronaut’s Kid in the Glorious ’80s’, by Patrick Mullane, copyright (c) 2020 by Patrick Mullane CHAPTER 13: COLD DAY “Pat – you need to go to Mr. Neil’s office.” Ms. Trahan, my economics teacher, had just taken a note from Angela, a […]
The Long Shadow of Challenger
Copyright 2018 by Richard Mike Mullane, all rights reserved. Author of Riding Rockets, The outrageous tales of a space shuttle astronaut. “…NASA’s drive to achieve a launch schedule of 24-flights per year created pressure throughout the agency that directly contributed to unsafe launch operations.”…House Committee on the Challenger Disaster Like my earlier post, this entry is […]
Challenger Mountaintop Memorial
CHALLENGER POINT MEMORIAL By Astronaut Richard ‘Mike’ Mullane Copyright 2018 by Richard Mike Mullane, all rights reserved. Author of Riding Rockets, The outrageous tales of a space shuttle astronaut. Autographed copies of Riding Rockets can be ordered from the Online store on this website. It is certainly the most remote memorial to the space shuttle […]
