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Author Dean, Margaret Lazarus, 1972- author.

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

Publication Info. Minneapolis, Minnesota : Graywolf Press, [2015]
©2015

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Location Call Number Status
 East Lyme Public Adult Non-Fiction   629.4 Dean    AVAILABLE
 Essex Adult Nonfiction   629.44 DEA    AVAILABLE
 North Haven Adult Nonfiction   629.4 Dean    AVAILABLE
Description 317 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
Content text
Media unmediated
Carrier volume
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references.
Summary "In the 1960s, humans took their first steps away from Earth, and for a time our possibilities in space seemed endless. But in a time of austerity and in the wake of high-profile disasters like Challenger, that dream has ended. In early 2011, Margaret Lazarus Dean traveled to Cape Canaveral for NASA's last three space shuttle launches in order to bear witness to the end of an era. With Dean as our guide to Florida's Space Coast and to the history of NASA, 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?"-- Provided by publisher.
Subject United States. National Aeronautics and Space Administration.
Space flight.
Space shuttles -- Accidents.
Outer space -- Exploration -- United States.
ISBN 9781555977092
155597709X