Chasing New Horizons: Inside the Epic First Mission to Pluto

Chasing New Horizons: Inside the Epic First Mission to Pluto
Alan Stern, David Grinspoon
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Paperback
h208 x 135mm - 320pg
21 May 2019 US
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9781250098979
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On July 14, 2015, something amazing happened. More than 3 billion miles from Earth, a small NASA spacecraft called New Horizons screamed past Pluto at more than 32,000 miles per hour, focusing its instruments on the long mysterious icy worlds of the Pluto system, and then continued on its journey out into the beyond. Chasing New Horizons is the story of the men and women behind the mission: of their decades-long commitment; of the political fights within and outside of NASA; of the sheer human ingenuity it took to design, build, and fly the mission. Told from the insider's perspective of Dr. Alan Stern, Chasing New Horizons is a riveting story of scientific discovery, and of how far humanity ca
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ISBN-13: 9781250098979
Published: 21 May 2019
Published In: United States
Imprint: Picador USA
Publisher: St Martin's Press
Format: Paperback
Height: 208mm
Width: 135mm
Pages: 320

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