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portada Leaving Orbit: Notes From the Last Days of American Spaceflight (in English)
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Physical Book
Publisher
Author
Year
2015
Language
English
Pages
240
Format
Paperback
ISBN13
9781555977092
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Leaving Orbit: Notes From the Last Days of American Spaceflight (in English)

Margaret Lazarus Dean (Author) · Gray Wolf Pr · Paperback

Leaving Orbit: Notes From the Last Days of American Spaceflight (in English) - Margaret Lazarus Dean

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Synopsis "Leaving Orbit: Notes From the Last Days of American Spaceflight (in English)"

Winner of the Graywolf Press Nonfiction Prize, a breathtaking elegy to the waning days of human spaceflight as we have known itIn 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?

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