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Handprints on Hubble : an astronaut's story of invention / Kathryn D. Sullivan.
Van Pelt Library TL789.85.S85 S85 2019
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Sullivan, Kathy, 1951- author.
- Series:
- Lemelson Center studies in invention and innovation series.
- Lemelson Center studies in invention and innovation series
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Sullivan, Kathy, 1951-.
- Sullivan, Kathy.
- Hubble Space Telescope (Spacecraft).
- Women astronauts--United States--Biography.
- Women astronauts.
- Women scientists--United States--Biography.
- Women scientists.
- United States.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Autobiographies.
- Physical Description:
- xv, 281 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, Massachusetts : The MIT Press, [2019]
- Summary:
- 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.
- Contents:
- Introduction
- Sputnik baby
- New guys
- "It shall be maintainable"
- Mission prep
- Grounded
- Returning to flight
- A new star in the sky
- Rescue and renovation.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780262043182
- 0262043181
- OCLC:
- 1085621669
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