Leaving Orbit : Notes from the Last Days of American Spaceflight (Paperback)

from kaylaraeintheway

Like me, Margaret Lazarus Dean was enamored by space and spaceflight. The fact that we sent men into space with less technological power than what is in our smartphones is amazing! But spaceflight, and NASA as an organization, has always been on the outskirts of American life, even during the pat...

from chrisblocker

"...I have come to feel that the end of the space shuttle is going to be the ending of a story, the story of one of the truly great things my country has accomplished, and that I want to be the one to tell it." (39) For some reason, I associate spaceflight with the month of February. I'm not sure...

from kaylaraeintheway

Like me, Margaret Lazarus Dean was enamored by space and spaceflight. The fact that we sent men into space with less technological power than what is in our smartphones is amazing! But spaceflight, and NASA as an organization, has always been on the outskirts of American life, even during the pat...

from chrisblocker

"...I have come to feel that the end of the space shuttle is going to be the ending of a story, the story of one of the truly great things my country has accomplished, and that I want to be the one to tell it." (39) For some reason, I associate spaceflight with the month of February. I'm not sure...