Hopefully Walnut Creek is planning newer, more powerful interfaces for the PC platform. Looking at the CD ROM content, the meat of the information lies in the text. The information is not as dry as one might think. Also, students named the shuttle Endeavour, after Captain Cook's ship, in a national competition. The pictures and sound samples included on Space Shuttle Encyclopedia are a mixed lot with quality.
Some pictures impress visually, showing the earth with clouds floating far below.
Other pictures inform with schematics or detailed views of shuttle systems. Then, remaining pictures repulse, reminding us that not all astronauts make good photographers. The sound bites included on the CD fail to deliver. Both the textual content and the visual content teach, but the sound samples don't. Overall, the Space Shuttle Encyclopedia is an excellent source of information about the Space Shuttle.