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Author Garan, Ron, Jr. (Ronald J.), 1961- author.

Title The orbital perspective : lessons in seeing the big picture from a journey of seventy-one million miles / astronaut Ron Garan
Edition First edition
Published Oakland, CA : Berrett-Koehler, [2015]
©2015

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Description 1 online resource (1 volume) : illustrations
Series A BK currents book
Contents Cover; Contents; Foreword; Preface; INTRODUCTION: A Shift in Perspective; PART I: LOOKING SKYWARD; ONE: Humanity's Home in the Heavens; TWO: Space, the Shared Frontier; THREE: Lessons in Collaboration from the ISS Program; PART II: LOOKING EARTHWARD; FOUR: One Moment in Space; FIVE: The Orbital Perspective; SIX: The Key Is "We"; PART III: LOOKING FORWARD; SEVEN: Camp Hope; EIGHT: Arrested Development; NINE: Mass Collaboration; CONCLUSION: A Web of Trust; Notes; Acknowledgments; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; Z; About the Author; Color Photos
Summary Ron Garan experienced something unique and extraordinary-living in orbit on the International Space Station (ISS) for six months. The ISS is arguably the most ambitious, technologically complicated undertaking in human history, and no one nation constructed it alone. Garan delves into the origins and global importance of the ISS, and then digs deeper to reveal the very personal impact his time on the ISS had for him. Now active in global projects to promote peace, combat hunger, thirst, and poverty, Ron is determined to use the audacity of the ISS as a model for cooperation to solve our greate
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Online resource; title from title page (Safari, viewed January 23, 2015)
Subject Garan, Ron, Jr. (Ronald J.), 1961-
SUBJECT Garan, Ron, Jr. (Ronald J.), 1961- fast
Subject International Space Station.
SUBJECT International Space Station fast
Subject Astronauts -- United States -- Biography
Astronautics -- International cooperation.
Peaceful change (International relations)
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- General.
TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING -- Engineering (General)
Astronautics -- International cooperation
Astronauts
Peaceful change (International relations)
United States
Genre/Form collective biographies.
autobiographies (literary works)
Autobiographies
Biographies
Biographies.
Autobiographies.
Biographies.
Autobiographies.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781626562479
1626562474
9781626562486
1626562482
Other Titles Lessons in seeing the big picture from a journey of seventy-one million miles