By Michael D. Leinbach,Jonathan H. Ward,Crippen Robert
For the 1st time, here's the definitive inside of tale of the Columbia catastrophe and restoration and the inspiring message it finally holds. within the aftermath of tragedy, humans and groups got here jointly to assist deliver domestic the is still of the workforce and approximately forty percentage of travel, an attempt that was once instrumental in piecing jointly what occurred so the trip application may well go back to flight and entire the foreign area Station. Bringing Columbia Home stocks the deeply own tales that emerged as NASA staff sought for misplaced colleagues and searchers overcame huge actual, logistical, and emotional demanding situations and labored jointly to complete the impossible.
Featuring a foreword and epilogue by way of astronauts Robert Crippen and Eileen Collins, this can be a massive narrative approximately better of humanity within the darkest of occasions and approximately how a failure on the top of human fulfillment grew to become a narrative of cooperation and hope.
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