Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space
- Kind
- Book
- Date
- 1997-09-08
- Publisher
- Ballantine Books
- Retrieved
- Mar 3, 2011
- ISBN
- 0345376595
- EAN
- 9780345376596
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