Bringing Columbia Home : The Untold Story of a Lost Space Shuttle and Her Crew

Bringing Columbia Home : The Untold Story of a Lost Space Shuttle and Her Crew

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Book Title: Bringing Columbia Home
ISBN: 9781948924610
By Author(s):MICHAEL D LEINBACH
By Publisher:SKYHORSE PUBLISHING
Format:TPB

oted 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