Ambassadors from Earth : Pioneering Explorations with Unmanned Spacecraft
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 sideusing 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?
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Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; List of Illustrations; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1. Aboard the Glacier; 2. Problem Child; 3. The Convict; 4. Light Fuse, get away; 5. New Moon; 6. Let's Make a Deal; 7. The Creators and the Makers; 8. Storming the Sea of Dreams; 9. Moving at the Speed of Design; 10. Job Number ma-11; 11. The Science and the Cyclist; 12. Get Off the Bus; 13. Swing in Time; 14. The Meeting and the Mechta; 15. Think Like Gravity; 16. Didn't They Get It?; 17. The Death and the Funeral; 18. One Hundred Percent Failure; 19. Three-Problem Shipley. 20. Pete and Al's Little Field Trip21. Irradiated Plans; 22. Embarking; 23. Get It; 24. Instant Science; 25. Circles of Gold; 26. Last Light; 27. Continuum; Sources; Index