03005cam a2200325 4500 545336270 TxAuBib 20211104120000.0 ||||||s2021||||||||||||||||||||||||und|u 9780062655875 0062655876 B078R4BTW9 Amazon 9815ab70-855a-400d-b12e-687d0e566461 OverDrive (Reserve ID) 5185862 OverDrive (Product ID) TxAuBib Brown, David W. The Mission [Libby] : A True Story. Custom House, 2021. Format: OverDrive Adobe EPUB eBook, Filesize: 12MB. Format: OverDrive Kindle Book. Format: OverDrive OverDrive Read. History. Science. Nonfiction. HTML:<p><strong>"An extraordinary tale, extraordinarily told." –Megan Abbott</strong><br /></p> <p><strong>A "magnificent" (Scientific American), genre-defying narrative of the most ambitious science project ever conceived: NASA's deep space mission to Europa, the Jovian moon where might swim the first known alien life in our solar system</strong></p> <p>In the spirit of Tom Wolfe and John McPhee, The Mission is an exuberant master class of creative nonfiction that reveals how a motley, determined few expanded the horizon of human achievement.</p> <p>When scientists discovered the first ocean beyond Earth, they had two big questions: "Is it habitable?" and "How do we get there?" To answer the first, they had to solve the second, and so began a vivacious team's twenty-year odyssey to mount a mission to Europa, the ocean moon of Jupiter.</p> <p>Standing in their way: NASA, fanatically consumed with landing robots on Mars; the White House, which never saw a science budget it couldn't cut; Congress, fixated on going to the moon or Mars—anywhere, really, to give astronauts something to do; rivals in academia, who wanted instead to go to Saturn; and even Jupiter itself, which guards Europa in a pulsing, rippling radi­ation belt—a halo of death whose conditions are like those that follow a detonated thermonuclear bomb.</p> <p>The Mission is the Homeric, never-before-told story of modern space exploration, and a magnificent portrait of the inner lives of scientists who study the solar system's mysterious outer planets. David W. Brown chronicles the remarkable saga of how Europa was won, and what it takes to get things done—both down here, and up there.</p>. Media Type: eBook. Importer Version: 2014-01-08.01 Import Date: 2022-01-03 20:00:02. https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=9815ab70-855a-400d-b12e-687d0e566461&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Adobe EPUB eBook) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=9815ab70-855a-400d-b12e-687d0e566461&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Kindle Book) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=9815ab70-855a-400d-b12e-687d0e566461&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (OverDrive Read)