Title:
Leaving orbit : notes from the last days of American spaceflight
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Publication Date:
2015
Publication Information:
Minneapolis, Minnesota : Graywolf Press, [2015]
©2015
Physical Description:
317 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
ISBN:
9781555977092
Contents:
Prologue: Air and space -- The beginnings of the future: This is Cape Canaveral -- What it felt like to walk on the Moon -- Good-bye, Discovery -- A brief history of the future -- Good-bye, Endeavour -- A brief history of spacefarers -- Good-bye, Atlantis -- The end of the future: Wheel stop -- The future -- Epilogue -- Timeline of American spaceflight -- Judge's afterword / Robert Polito.
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Language:
English
