Born to Explore: John Casani's Grand Tour of the Solar System - Hardcover
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Availability:In StockContributor:Jay GallentineSeries:Outward Odyssey: A People's History of SpaceflightPublish date:12/1/2025Pages:400
Language:EnglishPublisher:University of Nebraska PressISBN-13:9781496206657ISBN-10:1496206657UPC:9781496206657Book Category:Science, Technology & EngineeringBook Subcategory:Space Science, Aeronautics & AstronauticsBook Topic:Space ExplorationSize:9.11 x 6.42 x 1.40 inchesWeight:1.6513Product ID:SCTQZA4W6Z
Born to Explore: John Casani's Grand Tour of the Solar System
Once, there were giants in the heavens: billion-dollar machines of wonder and science that flew to the outermost planets and told us what secrets had been lying in wait. In charge of the people and processes behind these missions was a humble father of five who did the job not for money or prestige but simply because it represented a challenge like no other. That man was John Casani. The full...
Series: Outward Odyssey: A People's History of Spaceflight
Language:EnglishPublisher:University of Nebraska PressISBN-13:9781496206657ISBN-10:1496206657UPC:9781496206657Book Category:Science, Technology & EngineeringBook Subcategory:Space Science, Aeronautics & AstronauticsBook Topic:Space ExplorationSize:9.11 x 6.42 x 1.40 inchesWeight:1.6513Product ID:SCTQZA4W6Z
Jay Gallentine is an award-winning space historian from Minnesota. He is the author of Ambassadors from Earth: Pioneering Explorations with Unmanned Spacecraft (Nebraska, 2014), winner of the Eugene M. Emme Award for astronautical literature, and Infinity Beckoned: Adventuring Through the Inner Solar System, 1969-1989 (Nebraska, 2015), which examines the first intensive reconnaissance of the...
Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
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