Click2Flicks - Space Cowboys - Chapter 1 - Preface

<body link="0000ff" alink="ff0000" vlink="000000" bgcolor=000033> <table width="100%" bgcolor=000033> <tr> <td align=center valign=top><table width=90% bgcolor=ffffff cellpadding=5> <tr> <td align=center valign=top><div align=center><p><b><font face="arial, helvetica" size=5 color=000000><b>SPACE COWBOYS</p> <p>THE MEN AND WOMEN WHO WERE FIRST</b></font></p>  <table width="590"> <tr> <td align="CENTER" valign="top" bgcolor="000000" colspan=2><font face="ARIAL, HELVETICA" size="3" color="FFFFFF"><b>STORY CHAPTER LINKS</b></font></td> </tr> <tr> <td align=center valign=top width=50%>  <table width="100%" cellpadding="5" cellspacing="5" border="0"> <tr> <td align="LEFT" valign="TOP"><font face="ARIAL, HELVETICA" size="2"><a href="#preface"><b>1. STORY PREFACE</b></a></font> </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="LEFT" valign="TOP" width="50%"><font face="ARIAL, HELVETICA" size="2"><b><a href="space_cowboys_ch2.htm">2. BIKE SHOW OWNERS CHANGE THE WORLD</a></b></font> </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="LEFT" valign="TOP" width="50%"><font face="ARIAL, HELVETICA" size="2"><b><a href="space_cowboys_ch3.htm">3. THE FIRST MAJOR DISCOVERY</a></b></font> </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="LEFT" valign="TOP"><font face="ARIAL, HELVETICA" size="2"><b><a href="space_cowboys_ch4.htm">4. BRILLIANT BIKE SHOP EXPERIMENTS</a></b></font> </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="LEFT" valign="TOP"><font face="ARIAL, HELVETICA" size="2"><b><a href="space_cowboys_ch5.htm">5. THE WRIGHT BROTHERS MAKE HISTORY</a></b></font> </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="LEFT" valign="TOP"><font face="ARIAL, HELVETICA" size="2"><b><a href="space_cowboys_ch6.htm">6. ROCKETS</a></b></font> </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="LEFT" valign="TOP"><font face="ARIAL, HELVETICA" size="2"><b><a href="space_cowboys_ch7.htm">7. EXPERIMENTAL PLANES</a></b></font> </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="LEFT" valign="TOP"><font face="ARIAL, HELVETICA" size="2"><b><a href="space_cowboys_ch8.htm">8. THE SPACE RACE</a></b></font> </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="LEFT" valign="TOP"><font face="ARIAL, HELVETICA" size="2"><b><a href="space_cowboys_ch9.htm">9. AMERICA CATCHES UP</a></b></font> </td> </tr> </table>  </td> <td align=center valign=top width=50%>  <table width=100% cellpadding=5 cellspacing=5 border=0> <tr> <td align="LEFT" valign="TOP"><font face="ARIAL, HELVETICA" size="2"><b><a href="space_cowboys_ch10.htm">10. TRIUMPH AND TRAGEDY</a></b></font> </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="LEFT" valign="TOP"><font face="ARIAL, HELVETICA" size="2"><b><a href="space_cowboys_ch11.htm">11. "THE EAGLE HAS LANDED"</a></b></font> </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="LEFT" valign="TOP"><font face="ARIAL, HELVETICA" size="2"><b><a href="space_cowboys_ch12.htm">12. FIRST ABORTED APOLLO MISSION</a></b></font> </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="LEFT" valign="TOP"><font face="ARIAL, HELVETICA" size="2"><b><a href="space_cowboys_ch13.htm">13. THE FIRST TEACHER IN SPACE</a></b></font> </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="LEFT" valign="TOP"><font face="ARIAL, HELVETICA" size="2"><b><a href="space_cowboys_ch14.htm">14. "AN ACCIDENT ROOTED IN HISTORY"</a></b></font> </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="LEFT" valign="TOP"><font face="ARIAL, HELVETICA" size="2"><b><a href="space_cowboys_ch15.htm">15. WARNINGS IGNORED</a></b></font> </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="LEFT" valign="TOP"><font face="ARIAL, HELVETICA" size="2"><b><a href="space_cowboys_ch16.htm">16. LAST MINUTE PLEAS</a></b></font> </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="LEFT" valign="TOP"><font face="ARIAL, HELVETICA" size="2"><b><a href="space_cowboys_ch17.htm">17. THE CHALLENGER DISASTER</a></b></font> </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="LEFT" valign="TOP"><font face="ARIAL, HELVETICA" size="2"><b><a href="space_cowboys_ch18.htm">18. "UH-OH"</a></b></font> </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="LEFT" valign="TOP"><font face="ARIAL, HELVETICA" size="2"><b><a href="space_cowboys_ch19.htm">19. CHALLENGER'S AFTERMATH</a></b></font> </td> </tr> </table>  </td> </tr> </table>  <p><b><font size="3"><u><a name="preface">PREFACE</a></u></font></b></p> <div align=center><b><i><font face="Times New Roman" color="000000" size="3">They done it! They done it!<br> Damned if they ain't flew!</i><br><br> Johnny Moore<br> Kitty Hawk, North Carolina<br> December 17, 1903<br><br></font></b></blockquote> </div> <center> <table width="90%"> <tr> <td align="left" valign="top"> <div align="justify"> <p><font face="arial, helvetica" color="000000" size="3"><a href="http://www.putnam.k12.il.us/wilbur.jpg" target="_blank"><b>Wilbur Wright</b></a> had an illness. <a href="http://www.first-to-fly.com/History%20Images/051300%20Letter%201.jpg" target="_blank"><b>By his own account</b></a>, it was <a href="http://www.first-to-fly.com/History%20Images/051300%20Letter%202.jpg" target="_blank"><b>getting worse</b></a>.</p> <blockquote><font face="times new roman" size=3 color=000000><b><i>For some years I have been afflicted with the belief that flight is possible to man. My disease has increased in severity and I feel it will soon cost me an increased amount of money if not my life.</i></b></font></blockquote> <p>Thanks to Will Wright's <a href="http://www.first-to-fly.com/History%20Images/051300%20Letter%203.jpg" target="_blank"><b>disease</b></a>, and the <a href="http://www.first-to-fly.com/History%20Images/051300%20Letter%204.jpg" target="_blank"><b>cure</b></a> he and his brother invented, <a href="http://www.first-to-fly.com/History%20Images/051300%20Letter%205.jpg" target="_blank"><b>flying</b></a> is now part of everyday life, and <a href="http://science.ksc.nasa.gov/shuttle/missions/sts-103/images/medium/KSC-99PP-1475.jpg" target="_blank"><b>space travel</b></a> is no longer a figment of a dreamer's <a href="http://www.nasm.edu/galleries/gal114/SpaceRace/sec300/390l2p2b.jpg" target="_blank"><b>wild imagination</b></a>. </p> <p>Who were these men who figured out how humans can fly? And who were the people who risked their lives to advance the concept of flight? They were the first space cowboys. This is their story.</p> </div> <p align="right"><font size="2"><a href="space_cowboys_ch2.htm">GO TO CHAPTER 2</a></font></p> <p align="center"><font face="arial, helvetica" size="3"><a href="http://www.awesomestories.com/content/about_author.htm" target="_blank"><b>Author: Carole D. Bos, J.D.</b></center></a></p><br> </tr> </table>  </td> </tr> </table> </td> </tr> </table>  </body>