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The Last of the Great Observatories: Spitzer and the Era of Faster, Better, Cheaper at NASA
George H. Rieke
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| #1073077 in Books | University of Arizona Press | 2006-05-11 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 9.00 x.60 x6.00l,.77 | File type: PDF | 264 pages | ||7 of 7 people found the following review helpful.| In the belly of the beast|By Jeffrey F. Bell|As a former IR astronomer and author of several space mission proposals, I already knew some of the information in this book. But I still found it to be a fascinating window into the arcane and Byzantine process by which NASA produces complex scientific spacecraft. SIRTF/Spitzer took 20 years from announcement to launch, and it wen|From Publishers Weekly|It's a rare science book that reads like a thriller, but Rieke's intimate chronicle of the 20-year effort to put an infrared telescope (named after the pioneer of space-based astronomy, Dr. Lyman Spitzer) into orbit around the Earth does j
The Spitzer Space Observatory, originally known as the Space Infrared Telescope Facility (SIRTF), is the last of the four “Great Observatories”, which also include the Hubble Space Telescope, the Chandra X-ray Observatory, and the Compton Gamma Ray Observatory. Developed over twenty years and dubbed the “Infrared Hubble", Spitzer was launched in the summer of 2003 and has since contributed significantly to our understanding of the universe.
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You easily download any file type for your gadget.The Last of the Great Observatories: Spitzer and the Era of Faster, Better, Cheaper at NASA | George H. Rieke. I have read it a couple of times and even shared with my family members. Really good. Couldnt put it down.
