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Meet NASA inventor Philip Lubin and his team's laser-sailing starships / writer, Jeff De La Rosa.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Out of this worldPublisher: Chicago, Illinois : World Book Inc., [2017]Copyright date: ©2017Description: 48 pages : color illustrations ; 26 cmContent type:
  • text
  • still image
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780716661597
  • 0716661594
Other title:
  • Laser-sailing starships [Spine title]
  • Laser-sailing starships with NASA inventor Philip Lubin [Cover title]
Subject(s): Genre/Form:
Contents:
Destination: Proxima Centauri -- Inventor feature: Growing up during the space race -- Interstellar travel -- Getting there faster -- Big idea: Make it smaller -- Inventor feature: Phil fix-it -- Pushing faster -- Big idea: Solar sails -- Inventor feature: Observing nature -- Laser power -- Inventor feature: Defending the planet -- Proxima B or bust -- Inventor feature: Childhood inspiration -- Philip Lubin and his team.
Summary: "A volume explaining inventor Philip Lubin's plan to create space probes that use the power of laser beams to push the probe out of the solar system at around one-third the speed of light"-- Provided by publisher.
List(s) this item appears in: NASA's 65th Anniversary
Holdings
Item type Home library Collection Call number Materials specified Status Date due Barcode Item holds
Children's Book Children's Book Main Library Children's NonFiction 629.475 R788 Checked out 05/31/2024 33111008819100
Total holds: 0

Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

"A volume explaining inventor Philip Lubin's plan to create space probes that use the power of laser beams to push the probe out of the solar system at around one-third the speed of light"--

"A volume explaining inventor Philip Lubin's plan to create space probes that use the power of laser beams to push the probe out of the solar system at around one-third the speed of light"-- Provided by publisher.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Destination: Proxima Centauri -- Inventor feature: Growing up during the space race -- Interstellar travel -- Getting there faster -- Big idea: Make it smaller -- Inventor feature: Phil fix-it -- Pushing faster -- Big idea: Solar sails -- Inventor feature: Observing nature -- Laser power -- Inventor feature: Defending the planet -- Proxima B or bust -- Inventor feature: Childhood inspiration -- Philip Lubin and his team.

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