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Author Brown, David W., author.

Title The mission : or, how a disciple of Carl Sagan, an ex-motocross racer, a Texas Tea Party congressman, the world's worst typewriter saleswoman, California mountain people, and an anonymous NASA functionary went to war with Mars, survived an insurgency at Saturn, traded blows with Washington, and stole a ride on an Alabama moon rocket to send a space robot to Jupiter in search of the second Garden of Eden at the bottom of an alien ocean inside of an ice world called Europa (a true story) / David W. Brown.

Publication Info. [New York, NY] : Custom House, [2021]
©2021

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Location Call No. Status
 Avon Free Public Library - Adult Department  629.43 BROWN    Check Shelf
 Berlin-Peck Memorial Library - Non Fiction  629.4354 BROWN    Check Shelf
 Bristol, Main Library - Non Fiction  629.4354 BROWN    Check Shelf
 Farmington, Barney Branch - Adult Department  629.435 BRO    Check Shelf
 Glastonbury, Welles-Turner Memorial Library - Adult Department  629.43 BROWN    Check Shelf
 Manchester, Main Library - Non Fiction  629.43 BROWN    Check Shelf
 Mansfield, Main Library - Adult Nonfiction  629.4354 BROWN    Check Shelf
 Middletown, Russell Library - Adult Nonfiction  629.4354 BRO    Check Shelf
 New Britain, Main Library - Non Fiction  629.43 BRO    Check Shelf
 Newington, Lucy Robbins Welles Library - Adult Department  629.4354 BROWN    Check Shelf

Edition First edition.
Description 467 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
Contents Dramatis personae -- The course of icy moons -- Situations vacant -- The dark ages -- The center of the universe -- Station -- Maestro -- The death star -- Auto-da-fé -- Grand theft orbiter -- This Earth of majesty, this seat of Mars -- E pur si muove -- The Baltimore gun club -- Clipper -- Princess-who-can-defend-herself -- Ocean rising -- Train driver -- Step forward, tin man -- One inch from Earth.
Summary A narrative chronicle of NASA's deep-space mission to Jupiter's ocean moon, Europa, discusses the remarkable work of scientists who overcame formidable hurdles in their effort to determine if organic life exists elsewhere in the solar system.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 393-453) and index.
Subject Europa (Satellite)
Jupiter (Planet) -- Satellites.
Outer space -- Exploration.
ISBN 9780062654427
006265442X
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