The orbital perspective lessons in seeing the big picture from a journey of seventy-one million miles
Ron Garan experienced something unique and extraordinary-living in orbit on the International Space Station (ISS) for six months. The ISS is arguably the most ambitious, technologically complicated undertaking in human history, and no one nation constructed it alone. Garan delves into the origins an...
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| Formato: | Libro electrónico |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Oakland, California :
Berrett-Koehler Publishers
2015.
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| Edición: | First edition |
| Colección: | A BK currents book The orbital perspective
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| Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull: | https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009629855806719 |
| Sumario: | Ron Garan experienced something unique and extraordinary-living in orbit on the International Space Station (ISS) for six months. The ISS is arguably the most ambitious, technologically complicated undertaking in human history, and no one nation constructed it alone. Garan delves into the origins and global importance of the ISS, and then digs deeper to reveal the very personal impact his time on the ISS had for him. Now active in global projects to promote peace, combat hunger, thirst, and poverty, Ron is determined to use the audacity of the ISS as a model for cooperation to solve our greate |
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| Notas: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (313 p.) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781626562486 9781626562479 |
