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Exploring the solar system : the history and science of planetary exploration / edited by Roger D. Launius.
Format
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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TL788.5 .E96 2013
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Subject(s)
Outer space
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Exploration
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History
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Editor
Launius, Roger D.
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Series
Palgrave studies in the history of science and technology
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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.
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ISBN
9781137273161 ((alk. paper))
113727316X ((alk. paper))
LCCN
2012040649
OCLC
793573175
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