50 years of solar system exploration : historical perspectives
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- ISBN: 1626830533
- ISBN: 9781626830530
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Physical Description:
viii, 352 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm.
print - Publisher: Washington, DC : National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Office of Communications, NASA History Division, [2021]
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General Note: | Shipping list no.: 2022-0062-P. |
Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Formatted Contents Note: | Introduction: NASA's solar system exploration paradigm : the first fifty years and a look at the next fifty / James L. Green and Kristen J. Erickson -- Exploring the Solar System : who has done it, how, and why? / Peter Westwick -- Funding planetary science : history and political economy / Jason W. Callahan -- The politics of pure space science, the essential tension, human spaceflight's impact on scientific exploration / Roger Handberg -- Designing Mars sample return, from Viking to the Mars Science Laboratory / Erik M. Conway -- NASA, big science, and Mars exploration : critical decisions from Goldin to Bolden / W. Henry Lambright -- Survivor! (?) : the story of S. Mitis on the Moon / Linda Billings -- Killer asteroids : popular depictions and public policy influence / Laura Delgado López -- Voyager : exploring through the public eye / Giny Cheong -- Europe's rendezvous with Titan : the European Space Agency's contribution to the Cassini-Huygens Mission to the Saturnian system / Arturo Russo -- Ranger : circumstances, events, legacy / James D. Burke and Harris M. Schurmeier -- Mariner 2 and the CSIRO Parkes Radio Telescope : 50 years of international collaboration / John Sarkissian -- International cooperation in solar system exploration : a transnational approach to the history of the International Solar Polar Mission and Ulysses / Petar Markovski. |
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Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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Albright Memorial Library | NAS 1.21:2021-4705 (Text) | 50686016167210 | Government Documents | Available | - |
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