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Bringing Columbia Home - The Untold Story of a Lost Space Shuttle and Her Crew (Hardcover)
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Bringing Columbia Home - The Untold Story of a Lost Space Shuttle and Her Crew (Hardcover)
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Mike Leinbach was the launch director of the space shuttle program
when Columbia disintegrated on reentry before a nation's eyes on
February 1, 2003. And it would be Mike Leinbach who would be 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 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, this is an incredible
narrative about 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.
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