{"product_id":"space-exploration-1","title":"Space Exploration","description":"\u003cb\u003eThis is no ordinary space book.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Within the pages of this eclectic pop-history, scientist and educator Sten Odenwald at NASA examines 100 objects that forever altered what we know and how we think about the cosmos. From Sputnik to Skylab and Galileo’s telescope to the \u003ci\u003eCuriosity\u003c\/i\u003e rover, some objects are iconic and some obscure—but all are utterly important. \u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe \u003cb\u003eNebra sky disk\u003c\/b\u003e (1600 BCE) features the first realistic depiction of the Sun, Moon, and stars.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eThe Lunar Laser Ranging RetroReflector\u003c\/b\u003e \u003ci\u003efinally\u003c\/i\u003e showed us how far we are from the Moon in 1969.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eIn 1986, it was the humble, rubber \u003cb\u003eO-ring\u003c\/b\u003e that doomed the space shuttle \u003ci\u003eChallenger\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe \u003cb\u003eEvent Horizon Telescope\u003c\/b\u003e gave us our first glimpse of a black hole in 2019.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e These 100 objects, as Odenwald puts it, showcase “the workhorse tools and game-changing technologies that have altered the course of space history . . . the tools and devices that, taken together, represent the major scientific discoveries—and celebrate the human ingenuity—of space technology, showing the ways physics and engineering have brought about our greatest leaps in understanding the way our universe works. . . . They make it clear that we have made giant strides in our quest to search ever more deeply into the farthest reaches of the universe—and behind each new discovery is an object that expands our appreciation of space as well as the boundless imagination and resourcefulness we carry within us.”","brand":"MediaPlace","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57317218812286,"sku":"NW9781615196142","price":15.28,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1379\/1261\/files\/9781615196142.jpg?v=1778721237","url":"https:\/\/mediaplace.com\/products\/space-exploration-1","provider":"MediaPlace","version":"1.0","type":"link"}