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Handprints on Hubble: An Astronaut's Story of Invention

Handprints on Hubble: An Astronaut's Story of Invention

Sullivan, Kathryn D.

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Series: Lemelson Center Studies in Invention and Innovation

Biographies GeneralAstronomy & Space

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ISBN10: 0262539640
ISBN13: 9780262539647
Publisher: Mit Pr
Published: Dec 1 2020
Pages: 304
Weight: 1.25
Height: 0.60 Width: 6.00 Depth: 8.90
Language: English
The first American woman to walk in space recounts her experience as part of the team that launched, rescued, repaired, and maintained the Hubble Space Telescope

The Hubble Space Telescope has revolutionized our understanding of the universe. It has, among many other achievements, revealed thousands of galaxies in what seemed to be empty patches of sky; transformed our knowledge of black holes; found dwarf planets with moons orbiting other stars; and measured precisely how fast the universe is expanding. In Handprints on Hubble, retired astronaut Kathryn Sullivan describes her work on the NASA team that made all this possible. Sullivan, the first American woman to walk in space, recounts how she and other astronauts, engineers, and scientists launched, rescued, repaired, and maintained Hubble, the most productive observatory ever built.

Along the way, Sullivan chronicles her early life as a Sputnik Baby, her path to NASA through oceanography, and her initiation into the space program as one of thirty-five new guys. (She was also one of the first six women to join NASA's storied astronaut corps.) She describes in vivid detail what liftoff feels like inside a spacecraft (it's like being in an earthquake and a fighter jet at the same time), shows us the view from a spacewalk, and recounts the temporary grounding of the shuttle program after the Challenger disaster.

Sullivan explains that maintainability was designed into Hubble, and she describes the work of inventing the tools and processes that made on-orbit maintenance possible. Because in-flight repair and upgrade was part of the plan, NASA was able to fix a serious defect in Hubble's mirrors--leaving literal and metaphorical handprints on Hubble.

Handprints on Hubble was published with the support of the MIT Press Fund for Diverse Voices.

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