Bringing Columbia Home Bringing Columbia Home

Bringing Columbia Home

The Untold Story of a Lost Space Shuttle and Her Crew

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Publisher Description

Voted the Best Space Book of 2018 by the Space Hipsters

The dramatic inside story of the epic search and recovery operation after the Columbia space shuttle disaster.

On February 1, 2003, Columbia disintegrated on reentry before the nation’s eyes, and all seven astronauts aboard were lost. Author Mike Leinbach, Launch Director of the space shuttle program at NASA’s John F. Kennedy Space Center was a key leader in the search and recovery effort as NASA, FEMA, the FBI, the US Forest Service, and dozens more federal, state, and local agencies combed an area of rural east Texas the size of Rhode Island for every piece of the shuttle and her crew they could find. Assisted by hundreds of volunteers, it would become the largest ground search operation in US history. This comprehensive account is told in four parts:
• Parallel Confusion
• Courage, Compassion, and Commitment
• Picking Up the Pieces
• A Bittersweet Victory

For the first time, here is the definitive inside story of the Columbia disaster and recovery and the inspiring message it ultimately holds. In the aftermath of tragedy, people and communities came together to help bring home the remains of the crew and nearly 40 percent of shuttle, an effort that was instrumental in piecing together what happened so the shuttle program could return to flight and complete the International Space Station. Bringing Columbia Home shares the deeply personal stories that emerged as NASA employees looked for lost colleagues and searchers overcame immense physical, logistical, and emotional challenges and worked together to accomplish the impossible.

Featuring a foreword and epilogue by astronauts Robert Crippen and Eileen Collins, and dedicated to the astronauts and recovery search persons who lost their lives, this is an incredible, compelling narrative about the best of humanity in the darkest of times and about how a failure at the pinnacle of human achievement became a story of cooperation and hope.

GENRE
Science & Nature
RELEASED
2018
January 23
LANGUAGE
EN
English
LENGTH
400
Pages
PUBLISHER
Arcade
SELLER
Simon & Schuster Digital Sales LLC
SIZE
59.8
MB

Customer Reviews

Mountaineer61 ,

Disappointed

As a lifelong NASA-phile, I had looked forward to reading the book. But the energy of the heroism of the crew, and the determination of the volunteers, is lost in a sea of acronyms and nomenclature, and shrouded in a fog of name-dropping. There are nuggets of information which capture the tragedy and Herculean efforts to bring the crew home and get the shuttles flying again. But this is not light reading.

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