{"product_id":"9780063085572","title":"The Mission: A True Story","description":"\u003ctable\u003e\u003ctbody\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd style=\"\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAuthor\/Contributor(s):\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd style=\"\"\u003eBrown, David W.\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd style=\"\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eMariner Books\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd style=\"\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eDate:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e2\/17\/2021\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd style=\"\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBinding:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd style=\"\"\u003ePaperback\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd style=\"\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCondition:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd style=\"\"\u003eNEW\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003c\/tbody\u003e\u003c\/table\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e“Exceptionally absorbing and thrilling. ... Masterful.” —\u003cem\u003eNature\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA \"magnificent\" (\u003cem\u003eScientific American\u003c\/em\u003e), genre-defying narrative\u003cbr\u003eof the most ambitious science project ever conceived: NASA’s deep space mission\u003cbr\u003eto Europa, the Jovian moon where might swim the first known alien life in our\u003cbr\u003esolar system\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn the\u003cbr\u003espirit of Tom Wolfe and John McPhee, \u003cem\u003eThe Mission \u003c\/em\u003eis an exuberant master\u003cbr\u003eclass of creative nonfiction that reveals how a motley, determined few expanded\u003cbr\u003ethe horizon of human achievement. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhen scientists discovered the\u003cbr\u003efirst ocean beyond Earth, they had two big questions: “Is it habitable?” and\u003cbr\u003e“How do we get there?” To answer the first, they had to solve the second, and\u003cbr\u003eso began a vivacious team’s twenty-year odyssey to mount a mission to Europa,\u003cbr\u003ethe ocean moon of Jupiter.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eStanding in their way: NASA,\u003cbr\u003efanatically consumed with landing robots on Mars; the White House, which never\u003cbr\u003esaw a science budget it couldn’t cut; Congress, fixated on going to the moon or\u003cbr\u003eMars—anywhere, really, to give astronauts something to do; rivals in academia,\u003cbr\u003ewho wanted instead to go to Saturn; and even Jupiter itself, which guards\u003cbr\u003eEuropa in a pulsing, rippling radi­ation belt—a halo of death whose conditions\u003cbr\u003eare like those that follow a detonated thermonuclear bomb.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Mission \u003c\/em\u003eis the Homeric, never-before-told story of modern space\u003cbr\u003eexploration, and a magnificent portrait of the inner lives of scientists who study\u003cbr\u003ethe solar system’s mysterious outer planets. David W. Brown chronicles the\u003cbr\u003eremarkable saga of how Europa was won, and what it takes to get things\u003cbr\u003edone—both down here, and up there.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Mariner Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46249097134335,"sku":"9780063085572","price":18.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0452\/0886\/2873\/files\/9780063085572_s600x595.jpg?v=1780943098","url":"https:\/\/massivebookshop.com\/products\/9780063085572","provider":"MASSIVE BOOKSHOP","version":"1.0","type":"link"}