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About this product
Product Identifiers
PublisherPenguin Publishing Group
ISBN-100028642821
ISBN-139780028642826
eBay Product ID (ePID)2213449
Product Key Features
Book TitleComplete Idiot's Guide to NASA
Number of Pages360 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication Year2002
TopicGeneral, Aeronautics & Astronautics
IllustratorYes
GenreTechnology & Engineering, Science
AuthorThomas Jones, Michael Benson
Book SeriesThe Complete Idiot's Guide Ser.
FormatTrade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height0.7 in
Item Weight21.2 Oz
Item Length9.1 in
Item Width7.4 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceTrade
TitleLeadingThe
SynopsisCoverage 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.