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• Nominated for Sally Hacker Prize 2002
• Nominated for Sidney Edelstein Prize 2002

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This highly readable book charts the immense 30-year undertaking that led to the launch of the Chandra X-ray observatory on 1999 July 23. The husband-and-wife team of Wallace and Karen Tucker takes us behind the scenes, from the early pioneering days of X-ray astronomy through to the conception, development, and launch of Chandra on board the Space Shuttle...The descriptions of the immense technical and engineering challenges that had to be overcome will appeal to anyone with even a passing interest in astronomical technology, all told with the clarity and pace of a gripping novel. -- Omar Almaini The Observatory

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Wallace Tucker is science spokesman for the Harvard–Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics’s Chandra X-ray Observatory. He has coauthored, with his wife, numerous books on astronomy. Karen Tucker is science writer for the Harvard–Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics’s Chandra X-ray Observatory. She has coauthored, with her husband, numerous books on astronomy.

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