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

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

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (pages 307-309)

Illustrations

illustrationsplates

Index

no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Leaving orbit

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

889165129

Responsibility statement

Margaret Lazarus Dean

Sub title

notes from the last days of American spaceflight

Summary

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. --From publisher description

Table Of 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 -- Timeline of American spaceflight -- Judge's afterword / Robert Polito

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Notes from the last days of American spaceflight

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