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<p>Aviation Week article-- March, 2011 Posted by Mark Carreau <p>www.aviationweek.com/blogs/aw/space <p>As Discovery's astronauts settled onto the Shuttle Landing Facility at NASA's Kennedy Space Center on March 9 it was inescapably clear the long-running U.S. Space Shuttle Program is in de-orbit prep.<p>Endeavour and Atlantis are scheduled to fly for the final time within several weeks.<p>What's less certain is how the three-decade long flight test program will be judged by its investors, the American public. Will the shuttle's impressive capabilities be truly missed? Or were the winged orbiters, with their inability to leave low Earth orbit, an expensive detour to missions grander than Apollo's?<p> Wings In Orbit: Scientific and Engineering Legacies of the Space Shuttle, is a 553-page, firsthand account of the efforts to develop and sustain a reusable spacecraft with the technologies of the sixties and seventies. The effort is focused on the shuttle program's heritage, operati

<p>Aviation Week article-- March, 2011 Posted by Mark Carreau <p>www.aviationweek.com/blogs/aw/space <p>As Discovery's astronauts settled onto the Shuttle Landing Facility at NASA's Kennedy Space Center on March 9 it was inescapably clear the long-running U.S. Space Shuttle Program is in de-orbit prep.<p>Endeavour and Atlantis are scheduled to fly for the final time within several weeks.<p>What's less certain is how the three-decade long flight test program will be judged by its investors, the American public. Will the shuttle's impressive capabilities be truly missed? Or were the winged orbiters, with their inability to leave low Earth orbit, an expensive detour to missions grander than Apollo's?<p> Wings In Orbit: Scientific and Engineering Legacies of the Space Shuttle, is a 553-page, firsthand account of the efforts to develop and sustain a reusable spacecraft with the technologies of the sixties and seventies. The effort is focused on the shuttle program's heritage, operational strategy, engineering innovation and contributions to science, education and as well as its social legacy, <br> The shuttle was to be the first commercially successful space transport, Wings quickly advises with surprising candor. This impossible leap was not realized, an unrealistic goal that appears patently obvious in retrospect, yet it haunts the history of the shuttle to this day. <p>In all, Wings combines contributions from more than 325 men and women whose professional careers were intertwined with the shuttle's accomplishments and limitations as well as others who were swept up because of the program's long run and the wide assortment of missions.<p>The orbiters ushered satellites into space for astronomers, climate researchers, national security interests, planetary scientists and commercial satellite operators. They've flown as temporary space stations for biologists, biotechnologists, chemists, medical researchers and physicists. Shuttle crews have salvaged and repai

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Dr. Helen W. Lane is Chief Scientist for Biological Sciences and Applications Space Life Sciences at NASA/Johnson Space Center and the lead for the Space Life Scineces Academy that focuses on education for the NASA employees as well as outreach for K-20. Previously she was Manager of University Research and Affairs for NASA's Johnson Space Center. Dr. Lane has also managed NASA's Advanced Human Support Technologies Program, which includes innovative work in food science and technologies for extended-duration spaceflight. She was Acting Director of Technology Transfer Office and branch chief for biomedical operations and research that included the nutrition research laboratory and clinical medicine. As NASA's Chief Nutritionist, she led efforts to define nutritional requirements for healthy crew members during spaceflight. Her research and administrative functions have included setting the nutrition standards for the International Space Station and the joint U.S.- Russian Shuttle-Mir flights. Her research focused on energy and protein requirements as well as space-food nutritional quality. Dr. Lane has also completed clinical and basic science research on selenium and breast cancer. Dr. Lane received her B.S. from the University of California, Berkeley, her M.S. from the University of Wisconsin, Madison, and her Ph.D. from the University of Florida. She attended the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University in 1994. She served as Associate Professor of Nutrition at the University of Texas Medical Center from 1977 to 1984 and as Professor of Nutrition at Auburn University from 1984 to 1989. At present she serves as Adjunct Professor, Department of Preventive Medicine and Community Health, at the University of Texas Medical Branch in Galveston. As a registered dietitian, she is active in the American Dietetics Association and a member of the American Society for Nutrition.

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