![]() ![]() ![]() Along the way, Sullivan chronicles her early life as a “Sputnik Baby,” her path to NASA through oceanography, and her initiation into the space program as one of “thirty-five new guys.” (She was also one of the first six women to join NASA's storied astronaut corps.) Sullivan, the first American woman to walk in space, recounts how she and other astronauts, engineers, and scientists launched, rescued, repaired, and maintained Hubble, the most productive observatory ever built. In Handprints on Hubble: An Astronaut's Story of Invention, retired astronaut Kathryn Sullivan describes her work on the NASA team that made all of this possible. ![]() It has, among many other achievements, revealed thousands of galaxies in what seemed to be empty patches of sky transformed our knowledge of black holes found dwarf planets with moons orbiting other stars and measured precisely how fast the universe is expanding. ![]() The Hubble Space Telescope has revolutionized our understanding of the universe. Sullivan is part of the Lemelson Center book series with MIT Press. Handprints on Hubble: An Astronaut's Story of Invention by Kathyrn D. ![]()
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