Revealing the Universe: The Making of the Chandra Xray Observatory,Used

Revealing the Universe: The Making of the Chandra Xray Observatory,Used

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When the first Xray detectors revealed many places in the universe that are too hot to be seen by optical and radio telescopes, pioneering Xray astronomers realized they were onto something big. They knew that a large Xray observatory must be created if they were ever to understand such astonishing phenomena as neutron stars, supernovas, black holes, and dark matter. What they could not know was how monumental in time, money, and effort this undertaking would be. Revealing the Universe tells the story of the Chandra Xray Observatory.From the first proposal for a large Xray telescope in 1970 to the deployment of Chandra by the Space Shuttle Columbia in 1999, this book chronicles the technical feats, political struggles, and personal dramas that transformed an inspired vision into the world's supreme Xray observatory. With an insider's knowledge and a storyteller's instincts, Wallace and Karen Tucker describe the immense challenges that this project posed for such hightech industry giants as TRW, Eastman Kodak, and Hughes Danbury Optical Systems (now Raytheon Optical Systems). Their portrayal of the role of NASA is itself an extraordinary case study of multibilliondollar government decisionmaking, and a cautionary tale for future large space astronomy missions.Revealing the Universe is primarily the story of the men and women whose discoveries, skills, failures, and successes made the Chandra Xray Observatory possible.

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