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In September 1969  several months after the Apollo 11 lunar landing  President Richard M. Nixon
established the Space Task Force to chart NASA's path for the decades to come. This imaginative
vision was shattered less than six months later when  on January 13  1970  NASA Administrator
Dr. Thomas Paine announced that  owing to funding cuts  only the reusable Space Shuttle could
be afforded -- there would be no space station  no return to the Moon  and no missions to Mars.
This is a story never before told about the missions and technologies that NASA had begun to
plan but never fully realized. The book is a companion to the author's previous two works on
the Space Shuttle. Whereas the first two books showed how the Space Shuttle flew in space and
what the program accomplished  this book explains what more the Space Shuttle could have
achieved and how the space transportation system could have further matured if circumstances
had been otherwise. A final chapter also discusses howsome of these plans might be resurrected
in future programs.

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