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Title The mission [sound recording audiobook download] : A true story / David W Brown.
Publisher New York : Harper Audio, 2021.
Description 1 online resource (16 audio files) : digital.
Edition Unabridged.


NOTE Electronic reproduction. New York : HarperAudio, 2021. Requires OverDrive Listen (file size: N/A KB) or OverDrive app (file size: 430043 KB).
Performer Narrator: JD Jackson.
Summary A masterful, genre-defying narrative of the most ambitious science project ever conceived: NASA's deep-space mission to Europa--the Jovian moon where might swim the first known alien life in our solar system--powered by a motley team of obsessives and eccentrics. When scientists discovered the first ocean beyond Earth, they had two big questions: "Is it habitable?" and "How do we get there?" To answer the first, they had to answer the second, and so began a vivacious team's twenty-year odyssey to mount a mission to Europa, the ocean moon of Jupiter. Standing in their way: NASA, fanatically consumed with landing robots on Mars; the White House, which never saw a science budget it couldn't cut; Congress, fixated on going to the moon or Mars--anywhere, really, to give astronauts something to do; rivals in academia, who wanted instead to go to Saturn; and even Jupiter itself, which guards Europa in a pulsing, rippling, radiation belt--a halo of death whose conditions are like those that follow a detonated thermonuclear bomb. The Mission is the Homeric, never-before-told story of modern space exploration, and a magnificent portrait of the inner lives of scientists who study the solar system's mysterious outer planets. David W. Brown chronicles the remarkable saga of how Europa was won, and what it takes to get things done--down here, and up there.
Other edition Original 9780062654427.
Subject Europa (Satellite)
Jupiter (Planet) -- Satellites.
Outer space -- Exploration.
Add'l Names Jackson, JD, narrator.
ISBN 9780062988379
STANDARD # 5AD8AF3F-EE19-4ECA-8B73-43AB724D09E3 OverDrive, Inc. http://www.overdrive.com