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

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 t...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Dean, Margaret Lazarus, 1972- (Author)
Other Authors: Polito, Robert, 1951- (author of afterword.)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Minneapolis : Graywolf Press, [2015]
Subjects:
Outer space > Exploration > United States.
Space Shuttle Program (U.S.)
United States. > National Aeronautics and Space Administration.
Space flight.
Space shuttles > Accidents.
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.