|
Title:
|
Exploring the solar system : the history and science of planetary exploration /
|
|
Authors:
|
Roger D. Launius, Editor
|
|
Material Type:
|
book
|
|
Publisher:
|
Cham : Palgrave Macmillan, 2013
|
|
Series:
|
Palgrave studies in the history of science and technology
|
|
ISBN / ISSN / EAN :
|
978-1-137-27316-1
|
|
Format:
|
ix, 381 p. / ill. / 25 cm
|
|
Bibliography note:
|
Includes bibliographical references and index
|
|
Languages:
|
English
|
|
Class number:
|
TL788.5
|
|
Subjects:
|
Outer space--Exploration--History
|
|
Description:
|
|
|
Contents note:
|
omer 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
|
|
Format :
|
In print
|
|
Permalink:
|
https://isulibrary.isunet.edu/index.php?lvl=notice_display&id=8955
|
