A ton of posts exist over the web about alternate history for the Shuttle, had Skylab been docked with at the beginning of the shuttle program. With the STS program almost over, here's my take on an alternate history. I've kept the flight numbers and crews as close to the original sequence as possible...


STS-1: June 29th 1979. Columbia. Astronauts Thomas K. Mattingly and Henry W. Hartsfield man the first launch of Space Shuttle Columbia. The launch is covered in controversy...

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