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1 online resource (1 audio file (10hr., 43 min.)) : digital. |
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Digital content provided by hoopla. |
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Read by Cassandra Campbell, Danny Campbell. |
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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. 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 forty 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. |
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Mode of access: World Wide Web. |
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Columbia (Spacecraft) -- Accidents.
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Space shuttles -- Accidents -- United States.
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Space vehicles -- Recovery.
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Space vehicle accidents -- United States.
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Astronauts -- Accidents -- United States.
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Space vehicles. -- Recovery.
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Ward, Jonathan H., author.
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Crippen, Robert L., writer of introduction.
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Collins, Eileen (Eileen Marie), 1956- writer of afterword.
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hoopla digital.
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| ISBN |
9781977390806 (sound recording : hoopla Audio Book) |
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1977390803 (sound recording : hoopla Audio Book) |
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MWT12118267 |
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