Exploring the solar system : the history and science of planetary exploration / edited by Roger D. Launius.

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Book
Language
English
Εdition
First edition.
Published/​Created
New York, NY : Palgrave Macmillan, 2013.
Description
ix, 381 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.

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    Series
    Palgrave studies in the history of science and technology [More in this series]
    Bibliographic references
    Includes bibliographical references and index.
    Contents
    • Homer Newell and the Origins of Planetary Science in the United States
    • The Survival Crisis of the US Solar System Exploration Program in the 1980s
    • Faster, Better, Cheaper: A Sociotechnical Perspective on Programmatic Choice, Success, and Failure in NASA's Solar System Exploration Program
    • Redefining Celestial Mechanics in the Space Age: Astrodynamics, Deep-Space Navigation, and the Pursuit of Accuracy
    • Big Science in Space: Viking, Cassini, and the Hubble Space Telescope
    • Visual Imagery in Solar System Exploration
    • Returning Scientific Data to Earth: The Parallel but Unequal Careers of Genesis and Stardust and the Problem of Sample Return to Earth
    • Planetary Science and the "Discovery" of Global Warming
    • Exploring Planet Earth: The Development of Satellite Remote Sensing for Earth Science
    • Venus-Earth-Mars: Comparative Climatology and the Search for Life in the Solar System
    • Missions to Mars: Reimagining the Red Planet in the Age of Spaceflight
    • Parachuting onto Another World: The European Space Agency's Huygens Mission to Titan
    • Pluto: The Problem Planet and its Scientists
    • Transcendence and Meaning in Solar System Exploration.
    ISBN
    • 9781137273161 ((alk. paper))
    • 113727316X ((alk. paper))
    LCCN
    2012040649
    OCLC
    793573175
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