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Ambassadors from Earth

- Pioneering Explorations with Unmanned Spacecraft
Af: Jay Gallentine Engelsk Paperback

Ambassadors from Earth

- Pioneering Explorations with Unmanned Spacecraft
Af: Jay Gallentine Engelsk Paperback
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Ambassadors from Earth reminds us that our first mad scrambles to reach orbit, the moon, and the planets were littered with enough histrionics and cliff-hanging turmoil to rival the most far-out sci-fi film. But it all really happened!

Drawing on original interviews with key players and bolstered by previously unpublished photographs, journal excerpts, and primary source documents, Jay Gallentine delivers a quirky and unforgettable look at the lives and legacy of the people who conceived, built, and guided our first unmanned spacecraft and planetary probes. From the Sputnik and Explorer satellites of the late 1950s, to the thrilling Voyager “Grand Tour” of the ’70s and ’80s, they yielded some of the most celebrated successes and spectacular failures of the space age.

Confessed one participant, “We were making it up as we went along.”

Gallentine fearlessly clambers to the bottom of a surprisingly bitter controversy over who first developed the technique of using gravity to steer a spacecraft. Also of special note are his candid discussions with James Van Allen, the discoverer of the rings of planetary radiation that now bear his name.

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Ambassadors from Earth reminds us that our first mad scrambles to reach orbit, the moon, and the planets were littered with enough histrionics and cliff-hanging turmoil to rival the most far-out sci-fi film. But it all really happened!

Drawing on original interviews with key players and bolstered by previously unpublished photographs, journal excerpts, and primary source documents, Jay Gallentine delivers a quirky and unforgettable look at the lives and legacy of the people who conceived, built, and guided our first unmanned spacecraft and planetary probes. From the Sputnik and Explorer satellites of the late 1950s, to the thrilling Voyager “Grand Tour” of the ’70s and ’80s, they yielded some of the most celebrated successes and spectacular failures of the space age.

Confessed one participant, “We were making it up as we went along.”

Gallentine fearlessly clambers to the bottom of a surprisingly bitter controversy over who first developed the technique of using gravity to steer a spacecraft. Also of special note are his candid discussions with James Van Allen, the discoverer of the rings of planetary radiation that now bear his name.

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Sprog: Engelsk
Sider: 520
ISBN-13: 9780803249233
Indbinding: Paperback
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ISBN-10: 0803249233
Kategori: Forside
Udg. Dato: 1 jun 2014
Længde: 34mm
Bredde: 225mm
Højde: 144mm
Forlag: University of Nebraska Press
Oplagsdato: 1 jun 2014
Forfatter(e): Jay Gallentine
Forfatter(e) Jay Gallentine

Kategori Forside

ISBN-13 9780803249233

Sprog Engelsk

Indbinding Paperback

Sider 520

Udgave

Længde 34mm

Bredde 225mm

Højde 144mm

Udg. Dato 1 jun 2014

Oplagsdato 1 jun 2014

Forlag University of Nebraska Press