Henry S. F. Cooper (1933–2016)
Auteur de Thirteen: The Apollo Flight That Failed
A propos de l'auteur
Henry Spotswood Fenimore Cooper was born in Manhattan, New York on November 24, 1933. He received a bachelor's degree in English from Yale University in 1956. He wrote for The New Yorker for 35 years and contributed to The New York Times Book Review. He wrote 8 books including Apollo on the Moon afficher plus and Thirteen: The Apollo Flight That Failed. In Cooperstown he founded Otsego 2000, an environmental group, and campaigned against proposed industrial wind turbines, hydraulic fracking to extract natural gas, and a planned motorboat launching ramp on Otsego Lake. He died from lung cancer on January 31, 2016 at the age of 82. (Bowker Author Biography) afficher moins
Œuvres de Henry S. F. Cooper
Inside the Century 3 exemplaires
Thirteen: The Apollo Flight that Failed 1 exemplaire
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- Nom légal
- Cooper, Jr, Henry Spotswood Fenimore
- Date de naissance
- 1933-11-24
- Date de décès
- 2016-01-31
- Sexe
- male
- Nationalité
- USA
- Lieu de naissance
- New York, New York, USA
- Lieu du décès
- Cooperstown, New York, USA
- Études
- Yale University (BA|1956)
- Professions
- staff writer (The New Yorker)
space reporter - Organisations
- The New Yorker
Yale Club - Courte biographie
- Cooper specialized in writing about NASA space missions.
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Statistiques
- Œuvres
- 12
- Aussi par
- 1
- Membres
- 358
- Popularité
- #66,978
- Évaluation
- 4.0
- Critiques
- 5
- ISBN
- 23
- Favoris
- 1
“Aaron now told Kranz he would like to get Swigert to test Main Bus A by plugging one of the reëntry batteries into it and taking a Voltage reading. … A couple of minutes later, Swigert passed word back that he was getting a reading of two amps on the bus, and Kerwin said that sounded good to him.” Amps, of course, are a measure of current, not voltage.
Hopefully the more specialized domain knowledge of space flight was handled more accurately!… (plus d'informations)