Title: Leaving orbit
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.
Subjects: Space shuttles, United States, Exploration, United States. National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Accidents, Space flight, USA, Exploration of outer space, Space-shuttle, Space Shuttle Program (U.S.), USA National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Outer space, exploration, United states, national aeronautics and space administration, New York Times reviewed
Places: Outer space, United States