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(0)Marc Kaufman
Author
Publisher
Disney Book Group
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Formats
Description
National Geographic presents the science, the goals, and the anticipation of humankind's most ambitious planetary expedition ever: the Curiosity mission to Mars. On August 6, 2012 (EST), NASA's Curiosity spacecraft will complete its 255-day, 354-million-mile journey and plunge down into Gale Crater, its target on the martian surface, decelerating from 13,200 to 0 mph in 7 minutes. The whole world will be watching this, the most complicated and
...Author
Publisher
National Geographic
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
"National Geographic and science journalist Marc Kaufman combine inside stories, fascinating facts, and eye-popping pictures, some never before seen, of the red planet and NASA's groundbreaking Curiosity mission. Renowned author Kaufman spent two years embedded with the engineers and scientists at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, cheering on the rover's spine-tingling landing, learning the backstory of anticipated findings, and witnessing the inescapable...
Series
Best American plays volume 2
Publisher
Crown Publishers
Pub. Date
[1949]
Language
English
Description
Covers American theater's formative period, 1916-1929, with 25 complete plays, biographical and production data, and a survey of the period's drama and dramatists. This volume supplements the two previously published collections: Twenty best plays of the modern American theatre (1929-1939), first series and Best plays of the modern American theatre (1939-1946), second series.