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Title:
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Leaving orbit : notes from the last days of American spaceflight /
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Authors:
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Margaret Lazarus Dean, Author
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Material Type:
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book
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Publisher:
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Minneapolis, Minnesota : Graywolf Press, 2015
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ISBN / ISSN / EAN :
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978-1-55597-709-2
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Size:
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317 p., 2 unnumbered leaves of plates / ill. / 21 cm
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Bibliography note:
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Includes bibliographical references./ Winner of the Graywolf Press nonfiction Prize, Publishers Weekly Best Books of the Year won award in 2015
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Languages:
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English
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Class number:
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TL521.312
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Subjects:
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National Aeronautics and Space Administration
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Outer space--Exploration--United States
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Space Shuttle Program (U.S.)
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Description:
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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.
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