50 years of solar system exploration : historical perspectives / edited by Linda Billings.
Solar System Exploration @ 50 (2012 : Washington, D.C.), author.; Billings, Linda, editor.; United States. NASA History Division, issuing body.
2021
TL788.5 .S625 2020 (Mapit)
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Title
50 years of solar system exploration : historical perspectives / edited by Linda Billings.
Meeting Name
Solar System Exploration @ 50 (2012 : Washington, D.C.), author.
ISBN
9781626830530 (hardcover)
1626830533
9781626830547 (epub)
Published
Washington, DC : National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Office of Communications, NASA History Division, [2021]
Language
English
Description
viii, 352 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm.
Call Number
TL788.5 .S625 2020
Dewey Decimal Classification
919.904
GPO Item No.
0830-I
Summary
"To commemorate the 50th anniversary of the first successful planetary mission, Mariner 2 sent to Venus in 1962, the NASA History Program Office, the Division of Space History at the National Air and Space Museum, NASA's Science Mission Directorate, and the Jet Propulsion Laboratory organized a symposium. "Solar System Exploration @ 50" was held in Washington, D.C., on 25-26 October 2012. The purpose of this symposium was to consider, over the more than 50-year history of the Space Age, what we have learned about the other bodies of the solar system and the processes by which we have learned it. Symposium organizers asked authors to address broad topics relating to the history of solar system exploration such as various flight projects, the development of space science disciplines, the relationship between robotic exploration and human spaceflight, the development of instruments and methodologies for scientific exploration, as well as the development of theories about planetary science, solar system origins and implications for other worlds. The papers in this volume provide a richly textured picture of important developments - and some colorful characters - in a half century of solar system exploration. A comprehensive history of the first 50 years of solar system exploration would fill many volumes. What readers will find in this volume is a collection of interesting stories about money, politics, human resources, commitment, competition and cooperation, and the "faster, better, cheaper" era of solar system exploration"-- Provided by publisher.
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Shipping list no.: 2022-0062-P.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Billings, Linda, editor.
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United States. NASA History Division, issuing body.
Series
NASA SP (Series) ; 4705.
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50 years of solar system exploration.
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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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