Leaving orbit
Subtitle: notes from the last days of American spaceflight
By: Margaret Lazarus Dean
Publisher: Graywolf Press
Published: 2015
Language: eng
Number of pages: 317
ISBN-13: 9781555977092
Copyright date: 2015
Subjects: Space shuttles; United States; Exploration; United States. National Aeronautics and Space Administration; Accidents; Space flight
Description: 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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.