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|title=Space Chronicles: Facing the Ultimate Frontier

|author=Neil deGrasse Tyson

|borrow=Yes

|isbn=978-0393082104

|pages=364

|publisher=Norton

|date=April 2012

|summary=A collection of journalism from an enthusiastic advocate of American space history - and its future.

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A year or so ago there was a big hoopla about being able to see the International Space Station pass overhead where I live, so I dutifully clambered on to the roof. And indeed it was actually very warming to know I was seeing something manmade, from 250 miles away. As for the chance to see it, its speed of 17,000mph means it orbits the planet every 92 and a half minutes. It gets about. But some of the warmth of seeing it, as well as the achievements that led up to it, and the politics of NASA's five decades - and some of the Newtonian physics involved in it - are all in this volume.

I must thank the publishers for my review copy.

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