Handprints on Hubble: An Astronaut's Story of Invention (Lemelson Center Studies in Invention and Innovation)

by Kathryn D. Sullivan

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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 this...Read more
  • ISBN10 0262539640
  • ISBN13 9780262539647
  • Publish Date 1 December 2020 (first published 5 November 2019)
  • Publish Status Active
  • Publish Country US
  • Publisher MIT Press Ltd
  • Imprint MIT Press