Henry S. F. Cooper (1933–2016)
Forfatter af Thirteen: The Apollo Flight That Failed
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Henry Spotswood Fenimore Cooper was born in Manhattan, New York on November 24, 1933. He received a bachelor's degree in English from Yale University in 1956. He wrote for The New Yorker for 35 years and contributed to The New York Times Book Review. He wrote 8 books including Apollo on the Moon vis mere and Thirteen: The Apollo Flight That Failed. In Cooperstown he founded Otsego 2000, an environmental group, and campaigned against proposed industrial wind turbines, hydraulic fracking to extract natural gas, and a planned motorboat launching ramp on Otsego Lake. He died from lung cancer on January 31, 2016 at the age of 82. (Bowker Author Biography) vis mindre
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Inside the Century 3 eksemplarer
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- Juridisk navn
- Cooper, Jr, Henry Spotswood Fenimore
- Fødselsdato
- 1933-11-24
- Dødsdag
- 2016-01-31
- Køn
- male
- Nationalitet
- USA
- Fødested
- New York, New York, USA
- Dødssted
- Cooperstown, New York, USA
- Uddannelse
- Yale University (BA|1956)
- Erhverv
- staff writer (The New Yorker)
space reporter - Organisationer
- The New Yorker
Yale Club - Kort biografi
- Cooper specialized in writing about NASA space missions.
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- #66,978
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- 4.0
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- 23
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“Aaron now told Kranz he would like to get Swigert to test Main Bus A by plugging one of the reëntry batteries into it and taking a Voltage reading. … A couple of minutes later, Swigert passed word back that he was getting a reading of two amps on the bus, and Kerwin said that sounded good to him.” Amps, of course, are a measure of current, not voltage.
Hopefully the more specialized domain knowledge of space flight was handled more accurately!… (mere)