Space Shuttle Discovery: The Champion of the Space Shuttle Fleet

Dennis Jenkins (Washington D.C.) is a consulting engineer in Cape Canaveral, Florida. During more than 20 years of service with various aerospace contractors, including Martin Marietta, Lockheed, Lockheed Martin, and United Space Alliance, Mr. Jenkins worked on the Space Shuttle, X-33, and several classified projects. He has also written over 30 works on aerospace history. He is currently working on theofficial history of the X-15 program for the NASA History office. Roger D. Launius (Washington D.C.) graduated from Graceland College in Lamoni, Iowa, and received his Ph.D. from Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, in 1982. He then worked as a civilian historian with the United States Air Force until 1990, when he became chief historian of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration from 1990 to 2002. Valerie Neal joined the Smithsonian as a curator in 1989 and is responsible for post-Apollo human spaceflight artifact collections, which principally document the history of Skylab and the space shuttle. Recently she led the effort to restore the Space Shuttle Enterprise for permanent display and to acquire SpaceShipOne for the national collection. She has curated two major Museum exhibitions. Her current projects are a book and exhibition on the space shuttle era.