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Christa McAuliffe's four months of training draw to and end. Before the launch, she get's to head home to spend Christmas and New Year's with her family and then it's off to Florida for the launch, a launch that was delayed several times until NASA felt pressure to get the mission underway no matter what.

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The Teacher-in-Space finalists take a ride on the vomit comet and are rewarded with a trip to Space Camp, which tragically results in the death of an employee, before returning to Washington, DC for the announcement of which one of them will be joining the crew of STS-51-L. We also learn why mission specialist astronauts really don't like - some might even ay hate -  payload specialist non-astronauts.

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Following the first several shuttle missions, particularly after Sally Ride's historic flight on the seventh mission, public interest in the shuttle program dropped off much as it had following Apollo 11 and the first successful moon landing. In an attempt to rekindle public interest, President Reagan announced that the 25th shuttle mission would include a non-astronaut. NASA would be sending the first private citizen to space, a teacher who be selected following a nationwide application period.

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To qualify the Space Shuttle, four test flights into space with two member crews, were launched to prove its spaceworthiness. After the final of these flight, which landed on July 4 - a date I'm sure what not a coincidence - President Ronald Reagan declared the Shuttle fully mission capable. Between 1983 and 1985, three more shuttles joined the fleet and the seventh mission of the shuttle era, STS-7, saw Sally Ride become the first American woman in space.

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Even before the end of the Apollo Program ended, work on the next generation space vehicle began. The result was the Space Shuttle, NASA's workhorse that would serve for 30 years, but was not able to completely live up to its pre-production hype.

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The first International Space Station was a joint US-USSR mission called the Apollo-Soyuz Test Program in 1975 when three astronauts and two cosmonauts spent nearly two days together docked in Earth orbit. It was planned during a thawing of the Cold War but by the time the mission ended, the poticial climate was chilling again and it would be the final time Americans and Russians would shake hands in space for twenty years.

One of the three Americans on this mission was Mercury Seven astronaut Deke Slayton, who, at 51-years-old, finally got his first and only chance to go into space, after a heart condition had grounded him for 16 years!

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After accepting they would not make it to the moon first, the Soivet Union shifted thier focus on creating space stations for scientific and miltiary observations in low Earth orbit. These stations, called Salyuts, saw several iterations in the 1970s. Not to be out done, the US launched its own Space Station - Skylab - built from left over Apollo Program parts following the final Apollo mission. The three US crews to call Skylab home spent nearly six months in space collectively, but tow of the crews faced serious problems that threatened their missions.

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We have finally reached the end of the Apollo program, but the return of Apollo 17 from the moon doesn't mark the end of the space race era just yet. When the Soviets abandoned their mission to the moon, they went all in on near-Earth observations and started the era of the space station.

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This week we start with the reasons why the Apollo 15 crew's careers all ended in a state of ignominy after one of the more successful moon missions, followed by a few eulogies - Apollo 15 astronaut James Irwin and Apollo 12 astronaut Dick Gordon (oops!). We wrap up the episode with the story of Apollo 16, the penultimate Apollo mission.

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After eulogizing Alan Shepard, the first American in space, we will take a look at Apollo 15, what is often referred to as the most successful Apollo mission. It had everything - a beautiful location near lunar foothills, a rover - A CAR! - to drive around in, a memerable experiment broadcast for all the world to see, and the first every DEEP SPACE space walk.  But despite this success, the end of the podcast might leave you thinking that something went terribly wrong.

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