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100 1  Dean, Margaret Lazarus,|d1972-|eauthor. 
245 10 Leaving orbit :|bnotes from the last days of American 
       spaceflight /|cMargaret Lazarus Dean. 
264  1 Minneapolis, Minnesota :|bGraywolf Press,|c[2015] 
264  4 |c©2015 
300    317 pages, 2 unnumbered leaves of plates :|billustrations 
       ;|c21 cm 
336    text|btxt|2rdacontent 
337    unmediated|bn|2rdamedia 
338    volume|bnc|2rdacarrier 
504    Includes bibliographical references (pages 307-309). 
505 0  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.
520    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. 
586    Graywolf Press Nonfiction Prize. 
610 10 United States.|bNational Aeronautics and Space 
       Administration. 
610 17 USA.|bNational Aeronautics and Space Administration.|0(DE-
       588)2294-9|2gnd 
610 20 Space Shuttle Program (U.S.) 
650  0 Space flight. 
650  0 Space shuttles|xAccidents. 
650  4 Quality or Trade Paperback. 
650  4 Technology & Industrial Arts. 
650  4 Aeronautics & Astronautics. 
650  4 Americas (North Central South West Indies) 
650  4 Military|xAviation. 
650  7 Space-shuttle.|0(DE-588)4420719-0|2gnd 
651  0 Outer space|xExploration|zUnited States. 
700 1  Polito, Robert,|d1951-|eauthor of afterword. 
856 42 |3Contributor biographical information|uhttps://
       www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy1610/2014960047-b.html 
856 42 |3Publisher description|uhttps://www.loc.gov/catdir/
       enhancements/fy1610/2014960047-d.html 
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