Leaving orbit : notes from the last days of American spaceflight /

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by Dean, Margaret Lazarus,
[ 01. English Non Fiction ] Authors: Polito, Robert,--author of afterword. Physical details: 317 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm. Subject(s): Space flight. | Space shuttles 01. English Non Fiction Item type : 01. English Non Fiction
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Charlottetown Rural High School 629.4 DEA Available

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.