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๐ Fiction
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The Mission
โ Scribed by David W. Brown
- Publisher
- Custom House
- Year
- 2020
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 1 MB
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN-13
- 9782013326322
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
โฆ Synopsis
"An extraordinary tale, extraordinarily told." -Megan Abbott
A masterful, 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
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.
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.
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...
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