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Leaving Orbit: Notes from the Last Days of American Spaceflight

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Publisher: Graywolf Press
Product Name: Leaving Orbit: Notes from the Last Days of American Spaceflight
Language: English
Format: Paperback
Publication Date: 05/19/2015 00:00
ISBN: 155597709X
Pages: 240
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      Winner of the Graywolf Press Nonfiction Prize, a breathtaking elegy to the waning days of human spaceflight as we have known it 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?

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      Publisher: Graywolf Press
      Product Name: Leaving Orbit: Notes from the Last Days of American Spaceflight
      Author: Margaret Lazarus Dean
      Language: English
      Format: Paperback
      Publication Date: 05/19/2015 00:00
      ISBN: 9781555977092
      Pages: 240
      Publisher: Graywolf Press
      Product Name: Leaving Orbit: Notes from the Last Days of American Spaceflight
      Author: Margaret Lazarus Dean
      Language: English
      Format: Paperback
      Publication Date: 05/19/2015 00:00
      ISBN: 155597709X
      Pages: 240

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