Sullivan, the first American woman to walk in space, recounts how she and other astronauts, engineers, and scientists launched, rescued, repaired, and maintained Hubble, the most productive observatory ever built. In Handprints on Hubble, retired astronaut Kathryn Sullivan describes her work on the NASA team that made all of this possible. It has, among many other achievements, revealed thousands of galaxies in what seemed to be empty patches of sky transformed our knowledge of black holes found dwarf planets with moons orbiting other stars and measured precisely how fast the universe is expanding. The Hubble Space Telescope has revolutionized our understanding of the universe. The first American woman to walk in space recounts her experience as part of the team that launched, rescued, repaired, and maintained the Hubble Space Telescope.
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