Last Launch: Discovery, Endeavour, Atlantis

by Dan Winters

Book Overview

Honorable Mention, Los Angeles Book Festival Book Award, Photography, 2013

Americans have been driven to explore beyond the horizon ever since the Pilgrims landed at Plymouth Rock. In the twentieth century, that drive took us to the moon and inspired dreams of setting foot on other planets and voyaging among the stars. The vehicle we built to launch those far journeys was the space shuttle--Columbia, Challenger, Discovery, Atlantis,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 029273963X
• ISBN13: 9780292739635
• Release Date: May 2012
• Publisher: University of Texas Press
• Length: 176 Pages
• Weight: 3.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 10.1" x 12.3"