Annie Laura Smith has written five historical novels for young readers. She and her son and daughter were at Cape Canaveral on June 18, 1983, and watched Challenger launched into s...ver maisAnnie Laura Smith has written five historical novels for young readers. She and her son and daughter were at Cape Canaveral on June 18, 1983, and watched Challenger launched into space with Sally Ride aboard as the Mission Specialist. Smith lives in Huntsville, Alabama, near the Marshall Space Flight Center. She is the compiler of an Early Reader biography of Sally Ride, the first woman to go into space; Neil Armstrong, first man on the moon; Wehner von Braun, Space Scientist; National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), Project Mercury [United States' First Men-in-Space Program (1958-1963)]; and John Herschel Glenn, Jr., Space Pioneer and Senator, Dedicated Public Servant and Family Man.ver menos