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Category : Jupiter (Planet)
Languages : en
Pages : 12
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Project Galileo
Author: Mission to Jupiter
Author: National Aeronautics AdministrationPublisher: CreateSpace
ISBN: 9781493716661
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Languages : en
Pages : 342
Book Description
The Galileo mission to Jupiter explored an exciting new frontier, had a major impact on planetary science, and provided invaluable lessons for the design of spacecraft. This mission amassed so many scientific firsts and key discoveries that it can truly be called one of the most impressive feats of exploration of the 20th century. In the words of John Casani, the original project manager of the mission, "Galileo was a way of demonstrating . . . just what U.S. technology was capable of doing." An engineer on the Galileo team expressed more personal sentiments when she said, "I had never been a part of something with such great scope . . . . To know that the whole world was watching and hoping with us that this would work. We were doing something for all mankind." When Galileo lifted off from Kennedy Space Center on 18 October 1989, it began an interplanetary voyage that took it to Venus, to two asteroids, back to Earth, and finally on to Jupiter. The craft's instruments studied Jupiter's enormous magnetosphere and its belts of intense radiation. The spacecraft also sent off a planetary probe that accomplished the most difficult atmospheric entry ever attempted. After this, the craft spent years visiting Jupiter's moons and delving into their structures and properties. This book attempts to convey the creativity, leadership, and vision that were necessary for the mission's success. It is a book about dedicated people and their scientific and engineering achievements. The Galileo mission faced many significant problems. Some of the most brilliant accomplishments and "work-arounds" of the Galileo staff occurred precisely when these challenges arose. Throughout the mission, engineers and scientists found ways to keep the spacecraft operational from a distance of nearly half a billion miles, enabling one of the most impressive voyages of scientific discovery.
Project Galileo and Ulysses Missions (Tier 1)
Author: Galileo
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Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 188
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Galileo, the Tour Guide (and a Summary of the Mission to Date)
Author: Jean H. AichelePublisher:
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Category : Galileo Project
Languages : en
Pages : 116
Book Description
Galileo's Daughter
Author: Dava SobelPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 0802777473
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 436
Book Description
Inspired by a long fascination with Galileo, and by the remarkable surviving letters of Galileo's daughter, a cloistered nun, Dava Sobel has written a biography unlike any other of the man Albert Einstein called "the father of modern physics- indeed of modern science altogether." Galileo's Daughter also presents a stunning portrait of a person hitherto lost to history, described by her father as "a woman of exquisite mind, singular goodness, and most tenderly attached to me." Galileo's Daughter dramatically recolors the personality and accomplishment of a mythic figure whose seventeenth-century clash with Catholic doctrine continues to define the schism between science and religion. Moving between Galileo's grand public life and Maria Celeste's sequestered world, Sobel illuminates the Florence of the Medicis and the papal court in Rome during the pivotal era when humanity's perception of its place in the cosmos was about to be overturned. In that same time, while the bubonic plague wreaked its terrible devastation and the Thirty Years' War tipped fortunes across Europe, one man sought to reconcile the Heaven he revered as a good Catholic with the heavens he revealed through his telescope. With all the human drama and scientific adventure that distinguished Dava Sobel's previous book Longitude, Galileo's Daughter is an unforgettable story
Galileo’s Telescope
Author: Massimo BucciantiniPublisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 0674736915
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 361
Book Description
Between 1608 and 1610 the canopy of the night sky was ripped open by an object created almost by accident: a cylinder with lenses at both ends. Galileo’s Telescope tells how this ingenious device evolved into a precision instrument that would transcend the limits of human vision and transform humanity’s view of its place in the cosmos.
Scientific Feuds
Author: Joel LevyPublisher: Fox Chapel Publishing
ISBN: 1607652471
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 324
Book Description
Most science chronicles present a triumphant march through time, with revolutionary thinkers and their discoveries following in orderly progression. The truth, however, is somewhat different. Scientific Feuds is a collection of the most vicious battles among the greatest minds of our time. It features such contests as Huxley and Wilberforce's debate on Darwin's theory of evolution, Franklin and Wilkins' fight over the discovery of DNA, and the “War of Currents” between Tesla and Edison (which ended with Edison electrocuting dogs and horses in a vain attempt to discredit Tesla's work). From passionate competition to vindictive sniping, these rivalries prove that the world of science is far from cold and methodical.
Galileo, the Tour Guide
Author: Jean H. AichelePublisher: DIANE Publishing
ISBN: 0788139878
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 104
Book Description
Space Shuttle and Galileo Mission
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Appropriations. Subcommittee on HUD-Independent AgenciesPublisher:
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Category : Jupiter (Planet)
Languages : en
Pages : 680
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