Henry S. F. Cooper (1933–2016)
Autore di 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 mostra altro 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) mostra meno
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Inside the Century 3 copie
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- Nome legale
- Cooper, Jr, Henry Spotswood Fenimore
- Data di nascita
- 1933-11-24
- Data di morte
- 2016-01-31
- Sesso
- male
- Nazionalità
- USA
- Luogo di nascita
- New York, New York, USA
- Luogo di morte
- Cooperstown, New York, USA
- Istruzione
- Yale University (BA|1956)
- Attività lavorative
- staff writer (The New Yorker)
space reporter - Organizzazioni
- The New Yorker
Yale Club - Breve biografia
- Cooper specialized in writing about NASA space missions.
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- 12
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- 1
- Utenti
- 358
- Popolarità
- #66,978
- Voto
- 4.0
- Recensioni
- 5
- ISBN
- 23
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Hopefully the more specialized domain knowledge of space flight was handled more accurately!… (altro)