Group of seven technical reports and documents associated with STS-26, the Space Shuttle's 'Return to Flight' after the Challenger disaster, totaling hundreds of pages of technical data. Includes: a three-page Propulsion Laboratory "Predicted Key Events" document; a comprehensive "STS-26R Space Shuttle Main Engine Flight Operations Handbook"; a detailed "MPS Flight Measurement Location Document," with numerous fold-out charts and schematics; an "STS-26R Flight Readiness Firing Test Readiness Review" book from May 20, 1988; an "STS-26R NASA Level I/II Board SSME Flight Readiness Review" briefing book from September 14, 1988; an "STS-26R SSME L-2 Day Review, 9-27-88" review briefing from two days before launch; and a 148-page "Integrated Main Propulsion Final Report" prepared by Rockwell International in December 1988, evaluating performance of the subsystem on the flight. In overall very good to fine condition, with the cover sheet of one report detached but present. A scarce grouping of internal technical documents associated with the Shuttle's triumphant return to space.
Launched from Kennedy Space Center on September 29, 1988, STS-26 was the seventh flight of the Space Shuttle Discovery, and the first mission after the Space Shuttle Challenger disaster of January 1986. It deployed the TDRS-3 communications satellite as its primary payload, and also carried a number of life sciences and materials experiments.
