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

Name: Infinity Beckoned: Adventuring Through the Inner Solar System, 1969-1989
Brand: University of Nebraska Press
SKU: 9780803234468
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Contributors:

Jay Gallentine, Bobak Ferdowsi (Foreword by)

Publisher:

University of Nebraska Press

Binding:

Hardcover

Book Category:

Technology & Engineering, Science

Book Subcategory:

History, Aeronautics & Astronautics, Space Science

Book Topic:

Astronomy

Series:

Outward Odyssey: A People's History of Spaceflight

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Release Date:

2016-01-01

ISBN 13:

9780803234468

Weight:

1.92 lbs

Size:

9.28 x 6.07 x 1.54 inches

Pages:

496

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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 robotic spacecraft on the heavenly bodies nearest our own. These dedicated space pioneers include such individuals as Soviet Russia's director of planetary missions, who hated his job but kept at it for fifteen years, enduring a paranoid bureaucracy where even the copy machines were strictly regulated. Based on numerous interviews, Gallentine delivers a rich variety of stories involving the men and women, American and Russian, responsible for such groundbreaking endeavors as the Mars Viking missions of the 1970s and the Soviet Venera flights to Venus in the 1980s. From the dreamers responsible for the Venus landing who discovered that dropping down through heavy clouds of sulfuric acid and 900-degree heat was best accomplished by surfing to the five-man teams puppeteering the Soviet moon rovers from a top-secret, off-the-map town without a name, the people who come to life in these pages persevered in often trying, thankless circumstances. Their legacy is our better understanding of our own planet and our place in the cosmos.

About the Author
Jay Gallentine is a historian and filmmaker who has spent more than ten years researching the history of unmanned spaceflight. He is the author of Ambassadors from Earth: Pioneering Explorations with Unmanned Spacecraft (Nebraska, 2009), winner of the 2009 Eugene M. Emme Award for Astronautical Literature. Bobak Ferdowsi is a systems engineer from NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory.

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

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