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A History in 100 Objects
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A NASA science educator showcases important objects in space history from Galileo's telescope to the Curiosity rover: "Will fascinate readers of any age." - Publishers Weekly(starred review) This book examines 100 objects that forever altered what we know and how we think about the cosmos. From an ancient Mayan codex to Sputnik to Skylab and into the twenty-first century, some objects are iconic and some obscure-but all are utterly important. The Nebra sky disk(1600 BCE) features the first realistic depiction of the sun, moon, and stars. The Lunar Laser Ranging RetroReflector finallyshowed u...
A NASA science educator showcases important objects in space history from Galileo's telescope to the Curiosity rover: "Will fascinate readers of any age." - Publishers Weekly(starred review) This book examines 100 objects that forever altered what we know and how we think about the cosmos. From an ancient Mayan codex to Sputnik to Skylab and into the twenty-first century, some objects are iconic and some obscure-but all are utterly important.
- The Nebra sky disk(1600 BCE) features the first realistic depiction of the sun, moon, and stars.
- The Lunar Laser Ranging RetroReflector finallyshowed us how far we are from the moon in 1969.
- In 1986, it was the humble, rubber O-ringthat doomed the space shuttle Challenger.
- The Event Horizon Telescopegave us our first glimpse of a black hole in 2019.
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