The Universe in a Mirror: The Saga of the Hubble Space Telescope and the Visionaries Who Built It

摘要

"The truth is that what ordinary people really care about are things they can see, with their own eyes," writes Zimmerman, a science writer and historian. The Hubble Space Telescope has let the public see the universe and has compietely changed humanity's perception of the cosmos. The Universe in a Mirror explores the lives of the men and women who dreamed of, lobbied for and engineered the first optical, Earth-orbiting telescope-the one that made the view of the heavens clear.