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SPACE COWBOYS
THE MEN AND WOMEN WHO WERE FIRST

STORY CHAPTER LINKS
1. STORY PREFACE
2. BIKE SHOP OWNERS CHANGE THE WORLD
3. THE FIRST MAJOR DISCOVERY
4. BRILLIANT BIKE SHOP EXPERIMENTS
5. THE WRIGHT BROTHERS MAKE HISTORY
6. ROCKETS
7. EXPERIMENTAL PLANES
8. THE SPACE RACE
9. AMERICA CATCHES UP
10. TRIUMPH AND TRAGEDY
11. "THE EAGLE HAS LANDED"
12. FIRST ABORTED APOLLO MISSION
13. THE FIRST TEACHER IN SPACE
14. "AN ACCIDENT ROOTED IN HISTORY"
15. WARNINGS IGNORED
16. LAST MINUTE PLEAS
17. THE CHALLENGER DISASTER
18. "UH-OH"
19. CHALLENGER'S AFTERMATH
20. USED AND RECOMMENDED SOURCES

PREFACE

They done it! They done it!
Damned if they ain't flew!


Johnny Moore
Kitty Hawk, North Carolina
December 17, 1903

Wilbur Wright had an illness. By his own account, it was getting worse.

For some years I have been afflicted with the belief that flight is possible to man. My disease has increased in severity and I feel it will soon cost me an increased amount of money if not my life.

Thanks to Will Wright's disease, and the cure he and his brother invented, flying is now part of everyday life, and space travel is no longer a figment of a dreamer's wild imagination.

Who were these men who figured out how humans can fly? And who were the people who risked their lives to advance the concept of flight? They were the first space cowboys. This is their story.

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Author: Carole D. Bos, J.D.