I had never taken advantage in anything from my Department's Library in my university till last week. It was just a decorative place more than a functional one for me. But, then, I found these National Geographical magazines that amazed me, in spite of their antiquity. Such a good info caught me up inmediately. There was one of them, however, that inspired this post: National Geographic Volume 159, no.3 from March 1981 (Space shuttle). I was always interested in spacecrafts. I mean, what they are made of, the space shuttle and how they return to Earth. And, yeah, fortunately, i found some illustrative answers in this volume. I am about to share some images of it (sorry for the quality):