STS - Legal Connotations

Fragile man, tailored to his planet Earth, having demonstrated in Apollo missions that he can overcome hazards of travel to the moon and return, and in Skylab and Soyuz missions that he can live in the weightlessness of space for an appreciable period of time during which he can maintain an experimental space laboratory, is about to embark in the Space Shuttle on ventures that will truly comprise another giant step for mankind.