Grant Heiken
Autor de The Seven Hills of Rome: A Geological Tour of the Eternal City
Sobre El Autor
Créditos de la imagen: Grant Heiken [credit: Whidbey Camano Land Trust]
Obras de Grant Heiken
An atlas of volcanic ash 2 copias
Etiquetado
Conocimiento común
- Nombre canónico
- Heiken, Grant
- Nombre legal
- Heiken, Grant Harvey
- Otros nombres
- Heiken, Grant H.
- Fecha de nacimiento
- 1942-10-11
- Género
- male
- Nacionalidad
- USA
- Lugares de residencia
- Freeland, Washington, USA
Porterville, California, USA
Whidby Island, Washington, USA - Educación
- University of California, Santa Barbara
- Ocupaciones
- geologist
volcanologist - Organizaciones
- Los Alamos National Laboratory
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
International Volcanic Health Hazard Network
Whidbey Camano Land Trust
Miembros
Reseñas
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Estadísticas
- Obras
- 8
- Miembros
- 117
- Popularidad
- #168,597
- Valoración
- 4.0
- Reseñas
- 2
- ISBNs
- 14
Although it has the requisite number of dumb Springer typos, this is really good stuff. The early missions are fairly perfunctory, but that's mainly because the EVAs themselves were more perfunctory early on -- important and of course historic as they were. And therefore the book really kicks into gear once you hit Apollo 14, with the long (and frustrating) climb to Cone Crater. The later, "J" missions, with the Lunar Rover, are especially exciting.
If you were too young to see any of this live, this is an especially good way to get a flavor of what went on. And if you remember watching some of this, it's an enjoyable way to relive some of it.… (más)