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" Exploring the solar system : "
edited by Roger D. Launius
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BL
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641612
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| Title & Author
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Exploring the solar system : : the history and science of planetary exploration /\ edited by Roger D. Launius
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| Edition Statement
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First edition
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| Series Statement
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Palgrave studies in the history of science and technology
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ix, 381 pages :: illustrations ;; 25 cm
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9781137273161 (alk. paper)
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: 113727316X (alk. paper)
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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| Contents
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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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Outer space, Exploration, History
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| Dewey Classification
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523.2
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TL788.5.E96 2013
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Launius, Roger D.
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