Dean, Margaret Lazarus,

Leaving orbit : notes from the last days of American spaceflight / Margaret Lazarus Dean. - 317 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 307-309).

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.

Graywolf Press Nonfiction Prize.

ISBN: 9781555977092 155597709X

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Space flight.
Space shuttles

Dewey Class. No.: 629.40973