Jupiter Odyssey
Subtitle: The Story of NASA's Galileo Mission (Springer Praxis Books / Space Exploration)
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: Springer; Praxis Pub.
Published: November 10, 2000
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 448
ISBN-13: 9781852333010
Subjects: Astronautics; Space travel & exploration; Galileo Project; Planets; Science; Science/Mathematics; Jupiter (Planet); Aeronautics & Astronautics; Astronomy - Solar System; Jupiter; NASA; Science / Astronomy; Space Science; Space Technology; Astronomy - General; Astrophysics & Space Science; Cosmology; Exploration
First sentence: While living in Pisa, Italy, Galileo Galilei is said to have dropped differently sized masses from the 'leaning tower' in order to demonstrate that they would all fall at the same speed a prediction at odds with the conventional Aristotelian view that they would fall at different rates, the heavier ones reaching the ground first.