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

Title:

ISBN:

9781555977092

Personal Author:

Dean, Margaret Lazarus, 1972-

Publication Information:

Minneapolis, Minnesota : Graywolf Press, [2015]

Physical Description:

317 pages ; 21 cm

Awards Note:

Graywolf Press Nonfiction Prize.

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.

Corporate Subject:

United States. National Aeronautics and Space Administration.

Geographic Term:

Outer space -- Exploration -- United States.

Subject Term:

Space flight

Space shuttles -- Accidents

Added Author:

Polito, Robert, 1951-

OCLC Number:

ocn889165129

Availability:

Eagan - Wescott~1

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