Ambassadors from Earth: Pioneering Explorations with Unmanned Spacecraft

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U of Nebraska Press, 1 ¾.Â. 2009 - 500 ˹éÒ
Rewind to the 1950s and ponder: was America?s first satellite really built by a college student? How did a small band of underappreciated Russian engineers get pictures of the moon?s far side?using stolen American film? As the 1960s progressed, consider: how the heck did people learn to steer a spacecraft using nothing but gravity? And just how were humans able to goose a spaceship through a thirty-year journey to the literal edge of our solar system? ø Ambassadors from Earth relates the story of the first unmanned space probes and planetary explorers?from the Sputnik and Explorer satellites launched in the late 1950s to the thrilling interstellar Voyager missions of the '70s?that yielded some of the most celebrated successes and spectacular failures of the space age. Keep in mind that our first mad scrambles to reach orbit, the moon, and the planets were littered with enough histrionics and cliffhanging turmoil to rival the most far-out sci-fi film. Utilizing original interviews with key players, bolstered by never-before-seen photographs, journal excerpts, and primary source documents, Jay Gallentine delivers a quirky and unforgettable look at the lives and legacy of the Americans and Soviets who conceived, built, and guided those unmanned missions to the planets and beyond. Of special note is his in-depth interview with James Van Allen, the discoverer of the rings of planetary radiation that now bear his name. ø Ambassadors from Earth is an engaging bumper-car ride through a fog of head-banging uncertainty, bleeding-edge technology, personality clashes, organizational frustrations, brutal schedules, and the occasional bright spot. Confessed one participant, ?We were making it up as we went along.?

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Aboard the Glacier
7
Problem Child
12
The Convict
30
Light Fuse GET AWAY
39
New Moon
60
Lets Make a Deal
82
The Creators and the Makers
100
Storming the Sea of Dreams
125
Didnt They Get It?
287
The Death and the Funeral
292
One Hundred Percent Failure
302
ThreeProblem Shipley
323
Pete and Als Little Field Trip
337
Irradiated Plans
358
Embarking
382
Get It
391

Moving at the Speed of Design
155
Job Number mau
184
The Science and the Cyclist
201
Get Off the Bus
229
Swing in Time
247
The Meeting and the Mechta
266
Think Like Gravity
278
Instant Science
406
Circles of Gold
434
Last Light
442
Continuum
454
Sources
469
Index
489
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Jay Gallentine is a film and video engineer with a lifelong interest in space exploration.

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