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Astronomy

Shaping Science Organizations, Decisions, and Culture on NASA's Teams

Vertesi Janet

ISBN: HB: 9780226691084, University of Chicago Press, January 2021
352 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 12 halftones

In "Shaping Science", Janet Vertesi draws on a decade of immersive ethnography with NASA's robotic spacecraft teams to create a comparative account of two great space missions of the early 2000s. Although these missions appear to feature robotic expl...

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Astronomy

Culture Studies

Star Stories Constellations and People

Aveni Anthony

ISBN: HB: 9780300241280, Yale University Press, November 2019
208 pp., 21x14 cm, 34 black&white illus.

We can see love, betrayal, and friendship in the heavens, if we know where to look. A world expert on cultural understandings of cosmology, Anthony Aveni provides an unconventional atlas of the night sky, introducing readers to tales beloved for gene...

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Technology & Engineering

Spaceflight in the Shuttle Era and Beyond Redefining Humanity's Purpose in Space

Neal Valerie, Smithsonian Institution

ISBN: HB: 9780300206517, Yale University Press, August 2017
296 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 17 colour illus., 23 black&white illus.

An exploration of the changing conceptions of the iconic Space Shuttle and a call for a new vision of spaceflight. The thirty years of Space Shuttle flights saw contrary changes in American visions of space. Valerie Neal, who has spent much of her c...

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Technology & Engineering

Seeing Like a Rover How Robots, Teams, and Images Craft Knowledge of Mars

Vertesi Janet

ISBN: HB: 9780226155968, University of Chicago Press, April 2015
304 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 52 colour plates, 29 halftones, 4 line drawings

In the years since the Mars Exploration Rover Spirit and Rover first began transmitting images from the surface of Mars, we have become familiar with the harsh, rocky, rusty-red Martian landscape. But those images are much less straightforward than t...

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Cartography

Astronomy

Secret Science Spanish Cosmography and the New World

Portuondo Maria M.

ISBN: PB: 9780226055404, ISBN: HB: 9780226675343, University of Chicago Press, April 2013
352 pp., 25x15 cm, 5 tables, 10 colour plates, 14 halftones, 5 line illus.

The discovery of the New World raised many questions for early modern scientists: What did these lands contain? Where did they lie in relation to Europe? Who lived there, and what were their inhabitants like? Imperial expansion necessitated changes i...

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