![]() Enthusiasm for space and admiration for the many people involved in its exploration is a constant. Sullivan is honest about the sense of withdrawal that comes when astronauts return to ordinary life, and expresses envy while watching the launch of a repair team, sent to Hubble with tools she helped design, but didn’t get to use. ![]() ![]() All of this work underscores what it takes to be an astronaut.ĭescriptions of developing tools and procedures are set against a timeline and under the continual threat of budget cutbacks there’s urgency at every step, and the complexity and difficulty of the undertakings are conveyed with accuracy. She creates a record of that development, and the people both inside and outside NASA who made it happen, and depicts the years of training, rehearsals, and ground work that went into launching it. She captures the feeling of launching into orbit with accessible scientific explanations and is modest about her significant role in Hubble’s creation. Sullivan’s narration is friendly and engages interest. She first relates her career in the decade before NASA’s determination to create a bus-sized telescope and put it into orbit made Sullivan, who was experienced in low-gravity environments, a logical pick for Hubble’s development team. ![]() Kathryn Sullivan had a career in oceanography when she was chosen to be among the first women astronauts recruited by NASA. ![]() Sullivan conveys the excitement of going to space. In her memoir Handprints on Hubble, astronaut Kathryn D. ![]()
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