Bringing Columbia Home: The Untold Story of a Lost Space Shuttle and Her Crew [First edition] 9781628728521, 9781628728514, 1628728515

Foreword by Robert Crippen -- Silence and shock -- Good things come to people who wait -- The foam strike -- Landing day

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English Pages xii, 356 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (chiefly color), maps (chiefly color) Year 2018

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Bringing Columbia Home: The Untold Story of a Lost Space Shuttle and Her Crew [First edition]
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Table of contents :
Foreword by Robert Crippen --
Silence and shock --
Good things come to people who wait --
The foam strike --
Landing day --
Recovery day 1 --
Assessing the situation --
Searching for the crew --
Columbia is going home in a coffin --
Walkers, divers, and spotters --
Their mission became our mission --
Reconstructing Columbia --
Healing and closure --
Preserving and learning from Columbia --
The beginning of the end --
Celebrating 25,000 heroes --
Epilogue by Eileen Collins.

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