A Tribble's Guide to Space: How to Get to Space and What to Do When You're There.ALAN C. TRIBBLE The author uses the fictional world aboard Star Trek's spaceship Enterprise as a springboard for this exploration of space navigation. A rocket scientist Rocket Scientist In the world of finance, these are people with science and math degrees who work in the finance field building highly advanced quantitative finance models. These models help banking, insurance and investment firms to price financial instruments. who's worked on the Space Shuttle space shuttle, reusable U.S. space vehicle. Developed by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), it consists of a winged orbiter, two solid-rocket boosters, and an external tank. , Tribble ponders the physics that enables astronauts to steer spaceships into space and the ways that people and spacecraft spacecraft Vehicle designed to operate, with or without a crew, in a controlled flight pattern above Earth's lower atmosphere. Since streamlining is not needed in the high vacuum of this environment, a spacecraft's shape is designed according to its mission (see endure the harsh conditions of launch and space travel. Tribble answers many of the questions that nag the earthbound earth·bound also earth-bound adj. 1. Fastened in or to the soil: earthbound roots. 2. a. such as, Why did Scotty always need more power? Originally published in hardcover in 2000. Princeton U Pr, 2002, 174 p., b&w photos, paperback, $16.95. |
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