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 |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover Page; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Contents; Foreword; Preface; Introduction A Shift in Perspective; Part I Looking Skyward; One Humanity's Home in the Heavens; Two Space, the Shared Frontier; Three Lessons in Collaboration from the Iss Program; Part II Looking Earthward; Four One Moment in Space; Five the Orbital Perspective; Six The Key Is "We"; Part III Looking Forward; Seven Camp Hope; Eight Arrested Development; Nine Mass Collaboration; Conclusion A Web of Trust; Notes; Acknowledgments; Index; About the Author; Color Photos