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The universe in a mirror : the saga of the Hubble Telescope and the visionaries who built it / Robert Zimmerman.
Van Pelt Library QB500.268 .Z56 2008
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Zimmerman, Robert, 1953-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Hubble Space Telescope (Spacecraft)--History.
- Hubble Space Telescope (Spacecraft).
- Orbiting astronomical observatories.
- Space astronomy.
- History.
- Outer space--Exploration.
- Outer space.
- Space astronomy--History--20th century.
- Physical Description:
- xv, 287 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, 2008.
- Contents:
- 1 Foggy Vision 1
- 2 Slow Start 20
- 3 Getting Money 47
- 4 Building It 77
- 5 Saving It 118
- 6 "New Phenomena Not Yet Imagined" 157
- 7 Abandonment 182
- 8 The Lure of the Unknown 209.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 254-270) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780691132976
- 0691132976
- OCLC:
- 214307333
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