STS 3 The Landing is a true story of the recovery operations, from the author's perspective, to prepare a remote and hostile area to land and prep the Columbia Spacecraft for its return to Kennedy Space Center. To expose the rugged but fragile Spacecraft to the harsh conditions of a desert prone to strong gusty winds filled with gypsum sand was asking a lot of not only the Orbiter and crew, but the ground crew as well.
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The author is a space program veteran, working side-by-side with astronauts on the Apollo program, preparing the spacecraft for flight. He became an instructor on the Space Shuttle program, teaching technicians how to install and repair shuttle components.
After leaving the space program, he began writing fiction novels and has not limited his writing to one genre, following his imagination wherever it may go.