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This is the absorbing story of Neil de Grasse Tyson's lifelong fascination with the night sky, a restless wonder that began some thirty years ago on the roof of his Bronx apartment building and eventually led him to become the director of the Hayden Planetarium. A unique chronicle of a young... read more
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Characters/People edit
- Neil deGrasse Tyson: American astrophysicist, science communicator, the Frederick P. Rose Director of the Hayden Planetarium at the Rose Center for Earth and Space, and a Research Associate in the Department of Astrophysics at the American Museum of Natural History.
Setting & Locations edit
- New York City: Where Tyson grew up with his family.
- America
- Moon
- Jupiter
- Manhattan
- Mars
- Earth
- Columbia
- Washington
- Camp Uraniborg
- Skyview
- Massachusetts
- White House
- Princeton
- Neptune
- China
- Hayden Planetarium
- Lexington
- Africa
- Texas
- United States
- Russia
- Arizona
- Ground Zero
- Hudson River
- Los Angeles
First Sentence edit
At my high school graduating class's twenty-year reunion, during the obligatory assessments of how well time had treated us all, I won "the coolest job" contest in a straw poll of all those attending.
Authors & Contributors edit
- Neil deGrasse Tyson (Author)
Classification edit
- Library of Congress: Add the Library of Congress Classification.
- Dewey: 523.01092
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