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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...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Oakland, CA :
Berrett-Koehler,
[2015]
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| Edición: | First edition. |
| Colección: | A BK currents book
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo (Requiere registro previo con correo institucional) |
| Sumario: | 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 and global importance of the ISS, and then digs deeper to reveal the very personal impact his time on the ISS had for him. Now active in global projects to promote peace, combat hunger, thirst, and poverty, Ron is determined to use the audacity of the ISS as a model for cooperation to solve our greate. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (1 volume) : illustrations |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781626562479 1626562474 9781626562486 1626562482 |