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Leaving orbit : notes from the last days of American spaceflight / Margaret Lazarus Dean

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Author:
Dean, Margaret Lazarus 1972-  Search this
Writer of afterword:
Polito, Robert 1951-  Search this
Subject:
Space Shuttle Program (U.S.)  Search this
United States National Aeronautics and Space Administration  Search this
Physical description:
317 pages, 2 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations ; 21 cm
Type:
Books
Place:
Outer space
United States
Date:
2015
Contents:
Prologue: Air and space -- The beginnings of the future : this is Cape Canaveral -- What it felt like to walk on the Moon -- Good-bye, Discovery -- A brief history of the future -- Good-bye, Endeavour -- A brief history of spacefarers -- Good-bye, Atlantis -- The end of the future : wheel stop -- The future -- Epilogue -- Timeline of American spaceflight -- Judge's afterword / Robert Polito
Summary:
Leaving Orbit takes the measure of what American spaceflight has achieved while reckoning with its earlier witnesses, such as Norman Mailer, Tom Wolfe, and Oriana Fallaci. Along the way, Dean meets NASA workers, astronauts, and space fans, gathering possible answers to the question: What does it mean that a spacefaring nation won't be going to space anymore? An elegy to the waning days of human spaceflight as we have known it.
Topic:
Space flight  Search this
Space shuttles--Accidents  Search this
Exploration  Search this
Data Source:
Smithsonian Libraries
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_1046031