SHUTTLE STOP

摘要

Veteran astronaut Tom Jones gives readers an insider's look at spaceflight in his new book Sky Walking: An Astronaut's Memoir (Smithsonian Books/Collins). In this adapted excerpt, he recounts his STS-98 space shuttle crew's February 2001 mission to the International Space Station (here called Alpha). Among the station's other challenges, it tested the relationship between the United States and its former rival in space, Russia, as they worked together to build the largest and most complex structure ever placed in orbit.