Some more Columbia things via RobotWisdom:
This map is truly amazing -
wideopenwest.com/~krupp/NASA_De...
And this is a really long article about Columbia (and how it's a ridiculous enterprise) written in 1980. I learned more than I thought I would about shuttles from this. If you have no time, ctrl-f to "prestige", "truly", "tiles", "spitting", and "cryogenic".
washingtonmonthly.com/features/2001/...
