The Complete Idiot's Guide(R) to NASA

Type

Book

Authors

Thomas D. Jones

Michael Benson

ISBN 10

0028642821

ISBN 13

9780028642826

Tags

Astronautics & Space Flight, Aeronautics & Astronautics, Astrophysics & Space Science, History & Philosophy, Physics, Technology, Communication Policy

Description

Coverage includes: the history of NASA, from its origins in the l950s as the Jet Propulsion Laboratory and Projects Mercury and Gemini; the history and timeline, triumphs and tragedies of the famed Apollo missions, including the historic Apollo 11, which put the first men on the Moon in l969; NASA's contributions to our everyday life, most notably on robotics and the creation of cutting-edge research on aerodynamics and chapters on important NASA discoveries: the Pioneer and Voyager Spacecraft, the Hubble Space Telescope, communications satellites such as the Echo, Telstar, and Syncom. - from Amzon

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