Chapter Five

The Eighties

The Space Shuttle takes flight

Highlights:

1980 – Firebrand

1981 – Columbia Space Shuttle

1982 – L-SAT, First Space Shuttle flight April 12-14 (STS-1)

1983 – Marquardt purchased by ISC Defense and Space Group

1984 –

1985 –

1986 –

1987 – ISC merges with Ferranti International Signal, Nov. 16

1988 –

1989 -