Infinity Beckoned : Adventuring Through the Inner Solar System, 1969-1989 /

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"Infinity Beckoned illuminates a critical period of space history when humans dared an expansive leap into the inner solar system. With an irreverent and engaging style, Jay Gallentine conveys the trials and triumphs of the people on the ground who conceived and engineered the missions that put...

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Autor principal: Gallentine, Jay (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, 2016.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Space probes.
Lunar exploration.
Inner planets > Exploration.
Exploration of outer space.
Astronautics.
Artificial satellites.
TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING > Engineering (General)
HISTORY > Modern > 20th Century.
Astronautique > Histoire > 20e siecle.
Satellites artificiels > Histoire > 20e siecle.
Sondes spatiales > Histoire > 20e siecle.
Astronautics > History > 20th century.
Astronautics > Biography.
Inner planets > Exploration > History > 20th century.
Artificial satellites > History > 20th century.
Space probes > History > 20th century.
Outer space.
Moon.
Espace extra-atmospherique > Exploration > Histoire > 20e siecle.
Lune > Exploration > Histoire > 20e siecle.
Outer space > Exploration > History > 20th century.
Moon > Exploration > History > 20th century.
Biographies.
History.
Biography
Electronic book.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Series Page; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Epigraph; Contents; List of Illustrations; Foreword; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1. Beach Brainstorm; 2. What If . . .; 3. Dead at Birth; 4. Failure to Communicate; 5. Halt the Work, Destroy All Materials; 6. There and Back Again; 7. Sitting Cosmonauts; 8. Cauldron of Contradictions; 9. Buy-In; 10. "Prepared Area"; 11. Laying Eggs (Somehow); 12. How Low Can You Go?; 13. Three Mistakes; 14. Devil from Redondo; 15. The Boy to Be Beaten; 16. How to Buy a Computer That Does Not Exist; 17. Downsurfing; 18. Gulliver's Travels.
  • 19. Too Much Too Soon20. Scientific Charity; 21. Last Man Home; 22. Bonneville, Notch Rock, Double Squirt, Sudden Death; 23. Postmortem; 24. Sons of a Bitch; 25. The Sum of All Nations; 26. Hang Time; 27. The Rules of Resigning; 28. Wonders Never Cease; Sources; Index; About Jay Gallentine; About Bobak Ferdowsi; Series List.

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