Add this copy of The Star Splitters: the High Energy Astronomy to cart. $15.00, good condition, Sold by Second Story Books rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Rockville, MD, UNITED STATES, published 1984 by National Aeronautics and Space Administration.
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1984, National Aeronautics and Space Administration
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National Aeronautics and Space Administration
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1984
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English
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Book. Octavo; VG-; Hardcover; White spine with black text; Boards have moderate marks to the front and rear exteriors; Text block is clean; 181p. 1326383. FP New Rockville Stock.
Add this copy of The Star Splitters: the High Energy Astronomy to cart. $20.49, good condition, Sold by Cheryls-Books rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Vinemont, AL, UNITED STATES, published 1984 by Scientific and Technical Information Branch.
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1/1/1984
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Good. Hardback book in good condition, but missing dust jacket if issued one. Good clean copy. A minor mark on spine, and back cover has some slight waviness in one area, otherwise appears almost like new.
Add this copy of The Star Splitters-the High Energy Astronomy to cart. $30.00, like new condition, Sold by T A Borden Books rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Olney, MD, UNITED STATES, published 1984 by NASA.
Add this copy of The Star Splitters: the High Energy Astronomy to cart. $38.85, good condition, Sold by BookDepart rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Shepherdstown, WV, UNITED STATES, published 1984 by NASA, Scientific and Technic.
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UsedVery Good. Hardcover; light fading, light shelf wear to exterior; former owner's stamp ing on front endpaper; otherwise contents in very good condition with clean text, firm binding.
Add this copy of The Star Splitters: the High Energy Astronomy to cart. $59.00, like new condition, Sold by Mainly Books rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Silverdale, PA, UNITED STATES, published 1984 by National Aeronautics and Space Administration.
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1984, National Aeronautics and Space Administration
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National Aeronautics and Space Administration
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1984
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English
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17638399573
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Fine. Hardcover, was issued without a dustjacket, no remarkable flaws to this new-looking copy, 182 pages, "traces, literally from the word "go", the many elements of a major and highly successful space program: NASA's High Energy Astronomy Observatory (HEAO) program, " illustrated throughout with color photos and diagrams.
Add this copy of The Star Splitters; the High Energy Astronomy to cart. $75.00, good condition, Sold by Ground Zero Books, Ltd. rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Silver Spring, MD, UNITED STATES, published 1984 by National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Scientific and Technical....
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1984, National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Scientific and Technical...
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National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Scientific and Technical...
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1984
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Good. ix, [1], 182 pages. Illustrations (some in color). Color frontis illustration. Additional Reading. HEAO Management Team. About the Author. Minor tear inside front cover. Cover has minor wear and soiling. Wallace H. Tucker is an Astrophysicist who specialized in High Energy Astrophysics and worked in the Director's Office at the Chandra X-Ray Observatory. Astronomy is a science that stretches. The urge to know, to see even deeper into the ocean of space. stretches our machines to the limit and spurs us on to the development of better, more sensitive, and more sophisticated technology that is inevitably useful on Earth. It stretches our imagination, too, this reaching out across light years to touch a star, this wondering about how it all began and where it is all going. Ultimately this has to be the true value of astronomy, this effect on the human mind. As Mortimer Adler said, "A mind, once stretched, never returns to its original dimensions." Wallace H. Tucker's The Star Splitters is the story of a space science project, NASA's High Energy Astronomy Observatory (HEAO) Program. Astronomers began to dream about the research they would ultimately do with HEAO back in the mid-sixties. Dr. Tucker, a lucid writer as well as a distinguished scientist, brings alive the human drama along with the significance of the discoveries made with HEAO. The scientific discoveries on the three HEAOs greatly exceeded the anticipation of the astronomers. HEAO was an outstanding technical as well as scientific accomplishment. The cost per pound of scientific instrumentation for the HEAO instruments was 40 percent below the NASA average up to that time. HEAO demonstrated a new concept of building, testing, and flying one set of "protoflight" hardware, where previously NASA had built structural models, thermal models, prototype systems for integration, and finally the actual flight hardware. For HEAO only one set of hardware was built which was then assembled, tested, and flown. The integrity of this approach was reflected in the excellent orbital performance.
