| Description |
1 online resource. |
| Series |
Palgrave studies in the history of science and technology.
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| Note |
Description based on print version record. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
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. |
| Reproduction |
Electronic reproduction. Perth, W.A. Available via World Wide Web. |
| Note |
Description based on print version record. |
| Subject |
Outer space -- Exploration -- History.
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| Added Author |
Launius, Roger D., editor of compilation.
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Ebooks Corporation
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| Related To |
Original 9781137273161 113727316X (DLC) 2012040649 |
| ISBN |
1137273178 (electronic bk.) |
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9781137273178 (electronic bk.) |
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9781137273161 (alk. paper) |
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113727316X (alk. paper) |
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