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Book Synopsis Handprints on Hubble by : Kathryn D. Sullivan
Download or read book Handprints on Hubble written by Kathryn D. Sullivan and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2019-11-05 with total page 301 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first American woman to walk in space recounts her experience as part of the team that launched, rescued, repaired, and maintained the Hubble Space Telescope The Hubble Space Telescope has revolutionized our understanding of the universe. It has, among many other achievements, revealed thousands of galaxies in what seemed to be empty patches of sky; transformed our knowledge of black holes; found dwarf planets with moons orbiting other stars; and measured precisely how fast the universe is expanding. In Handprints on Hubble, retired astronaut Kathryn Sullivan describes her work on the NASA team that made all this possible. Sullivan, the first American woman to walk in space, recounts how she and other astronauts, engineers, and scientists launched, rescued, repaired, and maintained Hubble, the most productive observatory ever built. Along the way, Sullivan chronicles her early life as a “Sputnik Baby,” her path to NASA through oceanography, and her initiation into the space program as one of “thirty-five new guys.” (She was also one of the first six women to join NASA’s storied astronaut corps.) She describes in vivid detail what liftoff feels like inside a spacecraft (it’s like “being in an earthquake and a fighter jet at the same time”), shows us the view from a spacewalk, and recounts the temporary grounding of the shuttle program after the Challenger disaster. Sullivan explains that “maintainability” was designed into Hubble, and she describes the work of inventing the tools and processes that made on-orbit maintenance possible. Because in-flight repair and upgrade was part of the plan, NASA was able to fix a serious defect in Hubble’s mirrors—leaving literal and metaphorical “handprints on Hubble.” Handprints on Hubble was published with the support of the MIT Press Fund for Diverse Voices.
Book Synopsis The Space Telescope by : Robert W. Smith
Download or read book The Space Telescope written by Robert W. Smith and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1989-10-27 with total page 496 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Robert Smith's The Space Telescope sets the fascinating and disturbing history of this massive venture within the context of 'Big Science'. Launched at a cost of no more than $2 billion, the Space Telescope turned out to be seriously flawed by imperfections in the construction of its lenses and by solar panels that caused it to shudder when moving from daylight to darkness. Smith analyses how the processes of Big Science, especially those involving the government's funding process for large-scale projects, contributed to those failures. He reveals the astonishingly complex interactions that took place among the scientific community, government and industry and describes the great range of personalities and forces - scientific, technical, political, social, institutional and economic - that played roles in the Space Telescope's history.
Book Synopsis Faint Object Camera Instrument Handbook by : Space Telescope Science Institute (U.S.)
Download or read book Faint Object Camera Instrument Handbook written by Space Telescope Science Institute (U.S.) and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Sun and Other Stars written by and published by World Book. This book was released on 2006-01-01 with total page 63 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Introduces the Sun and various stars, answering questions about their atmospheres, what they are made of, how big they are, what they look like and much more.
Book Synopsis Faint Object Camera Instrument Handbook by : Space Telescope Science Institute (U.S.)
Download or read book Faint Object Camera Instrument Handbook written by Space Telescope Science Institute (U.S.) and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 110 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Bibliographia Boerhaaviana by : Gerrit Arie Lindeboom
Download or read book Bibliographia Boerhaaviana written by Gerrit Arie Lindeboom and published by Brill Archive. This book was released on 1959 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Bibliotheca bibliographica Aureliana by :
Download or read book Bibliotheca bibliographica Aureliana written by and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
