Издания и произведения

From Jars to the Stars puts Deep Impact into the greater context of humanity's continuing search for its origins via the senses of scientific spacecraft. It explores the improbable beginnings of Ball Aerospace and the evolution of the American space agency that paid for it, breaking new space-historical ground with the story of a group of University of Colorado students who built a "sun seeker" for the noses of sounding rockets studying the home star. The device set precedent for nearly all modern spacecraft. The book also tells the story of how Ed Ball, scion of the Ball Brothers Company of Muncie, Indiana, ended up buying a space…