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  title info:
    title: Leaving orbit
    sub title: notes from the last days of American spaceflight
  name:
    name part: Dean, Margaret Lazarus
    name part: 1972-
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  name:
    name part: Polito, Robert
    name part: 1951-
    role:
      role term: author of afterword.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: mnu
    date issued: 2015
    copyright date: 2015
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: 317 pages, 2 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations ; 21 cm.
  abstract: 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.
  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 -- Epilogue -- Timeline of American spaceflight -- Judge's afterword / Robert Polito.
  note: Margaret Lazarus Dean.
  note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 307-309).
  note: Graywolf Press Nonfiction Prize.
  subject:
    geographic code: n-us---
  subject:
    geographic: Outer space
    topic: Exploration
    geographic: United States
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Space Shuttle Program (U.S.)
  subject:
    name:
      name part: United States.
      name part: National Aeronautics and Space Administration.
  subject:
    topic: Space flight
  subject:
    topic: Space shuttles
    topic: Accidents
  classification: 629.40973
  identifier: 9781555977092
  identifier: 155597709X
  identifier: 2014960047
  record info:
    record content source: YDXCP
    record creation date: 140825
    record change date: 20170928133046.0
    record identifier: in00003583019