Handprints on Hubble by Kathryn D Sullivan

Handprints on Hubble by Kathryn D Sullivan

The first American woman to walk in space recounts her experience as part of the team that launched, rescued, repaired, and maintained the 30-year-old Hubble Space Telescope.

With the first successful all-female spacewalk making headlines on October 19, 2019, retired astronaut Kathryn Sullivan backtracks along the footpath she created for these women as the first American woman to walk in space. Sullivan describes how she and other astronauts, engineers, and scientists launched, rescued, repaired, and maintained The Hubble Space Telescope, the most productive observatory ever built. The now 30-year-old 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, Kathryn D.: - Kathryn D. Sullivan is a NASA astronaut (retired), former Under Secretary of Commerce for Oceans and Atmosphere of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), and an inductee in the Astronaut Hall of Fame.

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ISBN 13	9780262043182
ISBN 10	0262043181
Title	Handprints on Hubble
Author	Kathryn D Sullivan
Series	Lemelson Center Studies In Invention And Innovation Series
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	MIT Press Ltd
Year published	2019-11-05
Number of pages	304
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