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Orbit of Discovery : the all-Ohio space shuttle mission by Don Thomas; with Mike Bartell is a book available to read on EtoBox.

What is Orbit of Discovery : the all-Ohio space shuttle mission about?

"The desire to beat gravity is a Buckeye tradition. After all, Orville and Wilbur Wright were Dayton, Ohio, boys who went to Kitty Hawk in 1903 to get things off the ground. When space became the next frontier, John Glenn, who was born in Cambridge, Ohio, on July 18, 1921, became the first American to orbit the earth in his Friendship 7 spacecraft. A Wapakoneta, Ohio, resident, Neil Armstrong, born in 1930, followed in the footsteps of Glenn by being the first human to step onto the moon's surface during the summer of 1969. Don Thomas, a Cleveland native, saw other Ohioans in space and set his sights on becoming an astronaut. After years of hard work and dedication, he became part of the 1995 All-Ohio space shuttle Discovery mission. Orbit of discovery provides a firsthand account of this mission. Written by Thomas with the assistance of journalist, Mike Bartell, the book is a lively and entertaining must read for individuals who want to experience a ride into space. Orbit of Discovery is augmented with a foreword by astronaut and Senator John Glenn and an introduction by Senator George Voinovich." --Book jacket.

Author

Don Thomas; with Mike Bartell

Publisher

University of Akron Press, The

Published

2014

Language

EN

ISBN

9781937378769

Subjects

Engineering, Travel, Stem