Library Guides: Cuesta Library Virtual Book Club: Words of Change: March 2021: Handprints on Hubble

Cuesta Library Virtual Book Club

Handprints on Hubble

Cuesta's eBook copy
eBook copy available to Cuesta students and staff.

The Cuesta library has print copies at SLO and NCC. Email circulation@cuesta.edu to determine availability.

Author: Kathryn D. Sullivan

Kathryn Sullivan talks

AAAS David M. Rubenstein Lecture
For the closing program of the American Academy's Induction weekend, and for the first Annual David M. Rubenstein Lecture, Kathryn Sullivan discusses her life of exploration and discovery. She focuses on the "golly gee it's just fun stuff," and closes with a discussion of the importance of the space age for understanding earth. Highly recommended.
What It’s Like to Walk in Space and Dive 7 Miles Below Sea Level
Dr. Kathy Sullivan has experienced incredible highs and exhilarating lows as an explorer. As a NASA astronaut, Sullivan was the first American woman to complete a spacewalk in 1984. As a geologist and oceanographer, she became the first woman to dive to the lowest point on Earth—the Challenger Deep in the Pacific Ocean’s Mariana Trench, a depth of almost seven miles.
Presentation at Powell's Books
Dr. Sullivan presents the book, with visuals, and answers questions.

Reviews of Handprints on Hubble

Kenneth Katz review, Air and Space Power Journal
Meg Urry review in Nature

"How we probe and Pollute the Cosmos" reviews Alice Gorman's Dr. Space Junk vs the Universe and Kathryn Sullivan's Handprints on Hubble.
Jeff Foust review in The Space Review
Clifford R. McMurray review for the National Space Society

Hubble Space Telescope

Hubble Site (NASA)

The Hubble web site contains information on the history of the project, the technologies involved, research using data from Hubble, and images taken by the satellite.

Who is the telescope named for?

Edwin Hubble bio from Britannica

Celebrate Pi Day with NASA

10 Ways to Celebrate Pi Day with NASA on March 14 – NASA Solar System Exploration

How much pi do you need?. For simplicity, pi is often rounded to 3.14, but its digits go on forever and don’t appear to have any repeating patterns. While people have made it a challenge to memorize record-breaking digits of pi or create computer programs to calculate them, you really don’t need that many digits for most calculations – even at NASA.

Women Astronauts

Dot of Light

For National Space Day, filmmaker Eliza McNitt, in partnership with Google, released Dot of Light, the story of three female astronauts – Dr. Kathryn D. Sullivan, Nicole Stott, and Anousheh Ansari – and their journey to the stars.
Celebrating Women’s History Month: Most Recent Female Astronauts | NASA

For Women’s History Month, NASA and the International Space Station celebrate the women who conduct science aboard the orbiting lab.