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The Mission - A True Story (Paperback)
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The Mission - A True Story (Paperback)
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"Exceptionally absorbing and thrilling. ... Masterful." -Nature A
"magnificent" (Scientific American), genre-defying narrative of the
most ambitious science project ever conceived: NASA's deep space
mission to Europa, the Jovian moon where might swim the first known
alien life in our solar system In the spirit of Tom Wolfe and John
McPhee, The Mission is an exuberant master class of creative
nonfiction that reveals how a motley, determined few expanded the
horizon of human achievement. When scientists discovered the first
ocean beyond Earth, they had two big questions: "Is it habitable?"
and "How do we get there?" To answer the first, they had to solve
the second, and so began a vivacious team's twenty-year odyssey to
mount a mission to Europa, the ocean moon of Jupiter. Standing in
their way: NASA, fanatically consumed with landing robots on Mars;
the White House, which never saw a science budget it couldn't cut;
Congress, fixated on going to the moon or Mars-anywhere, really, to
give astronauts something to do; rivals in academia, who wanted
instead to go to Saturn; and even Jupiter itself, which guards
Europa in a pulsing, rippling radi ation belt-a halo of death whose
conditions are like those that follow a detonated thermonuclear
bomb. The Mission is the Homeric, never-before-told story of modern
space exploration, and a magnificent portrait of the inner lives of
scientists who study the solar system's mysterious outer planets.
David W. Brown chronicles the remarkable saga of how Europa was
won, and what it takes to get things done-both down here, and up
there.
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