90-degrees-off-kilter configuration of this space shuttle crew cabin mockup. The nose-up launch position disorients all but the most frequent visitors, but these three are pros, and they’ve been ...

In this adapted excerpt, he recounts his STS-98 space shuttle crew’s February 2001 mission ... Beamer quickly equalized the pressure between our cabin and the tunnel vestibule just above.

MIAMI, Florida (CNN) -- A NASA report on the last minutes of Space Shuttle Columbia ... report stated that "after the crew lost consciousness due to the loss of cabin pressure, the seat inertial ...