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Handprints on Hubble - An Astronaut's Story of Invention (Hardcover)
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Handprints on Hubble - An Astronaut's Story of Invention (Hardcover)
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List price R545
Loot Price R449
Discovery Miles 4 490
You Save R96 (18%)
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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 of 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.
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