Orbit of Discovery: The All-Ohio Space Shuttle Mission
Thomas, Don; with Mike Bartell
Language: English
Published by Ringtaw Books / University Of Akron Press, 2014
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First printing of first edition. Signed (signature only - no inscription) by Astronaut Don Thomas on the title page. Very Good in a Very Good dust jacket. Unmarked but for author's signature. Jacket has a bit of roll to bottom edge of front panel. 406 pages.
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- Title
- Orbit of Discovery: The All-Ohio Space Shuttle Mission
- Author
- Thomas, Don; with Mike Bartell
- Publisher
- Ringtaw Books / University Of Akron Press
- Publication year
- 2014
- Condition
- Very Good
- Dust jacket
- Very Good
- Signed
- Signed by Author(s)
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 1937378721
- ISBN 13
- 9781937378721
- Edition
- First Edition
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About the Author
Don Thomas was born in Cleveland, Ohio, and joined NASA in 1988 as a materials engineer working on the space shuttle program. In 1990, he was selected in NASA's thirteenth group of astronauts. He is a veteran of four space shuttle missions, completing nearly seven hundred orbits of the Earth and traveling over seventeen million miles during his twenty-year career with NASA. Additional information about the STS-70 mission can be found at OhioAstronaut.com. Mike Bartell, a lifelong resident of Toledo, Ohio, covered numerous space shuttle missions during his award-winning thirty-five-year career as a reporter and editor at The Blade in Toledo. He also taught journalism at the University of Toledo for more than thirty years.
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