Leaving Orbit: Notes from the Last Days of American Spaceflight - Softcover

Dean, Margaret Lazarus

 
9781555977092: Leaving Orbit: Notes from the Last Days of American Spaceflight
Softcover
ISBN 10: 155597709X ISBN 13: 9781555977092
Verlag: GRAY WOLF PR, 2015

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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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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Margaret Lazarus Dean is the author of The Time It Takes to Fall. She is a recipient of fellowships from the NEA and the Tennessee Arts Commission and is an associate professor of English at the University of Tennessee. She lives in Knoxville.

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Verlag
GRAY WOLF PR
Erscheinungsdatum
2015
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
155597709X
ISBN 13 
9781555977092
Einband
Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
240
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