Infinity Beckoned: Adventuring Through the Inner Solar System, 1969-1989 - Hardcover
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Availability:In StockContributor:Jay Gallentine, Bobak Ferdowsi (Foreword by)Series:Outward Odyssey: A People's History of SpaceflightPublish date:2016-01-01Pages:496
Language:EnglishPublisher:University of Nebraska PressISBN-13:9780803234468ISBN-10:803234465UPC:9780803234468Book Category:Technology & Engineering, ScienceBook Subcategory:History, Aeronautics & Astronautics, Space ScienceBook Topic:AstronomySize:9.28 x 6.07 x 1.54 inchesWeight:1.9224Product ID:SC3NTZFW4Y
Infinity Beckoned: Adventuring Through the Inner Solar System, 1969-1989
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...
Series: Outward Odyssey: A People's History of Spaceflight
Language:EnglishPublisher:University of Nebraska PressISBN-13:9780803234468ISBN-10:803234465UPC:9780803234468Book Category:Technology & Engineering, ScienceBook Subcategory:History, Aeronautics & Astronautics, Space ScienceBook Topic:AstronomySize:9.28 x 6.07 x 1.54 inchesWeight:1.9224Product ID:SC3NTZFW4Y
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.
Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
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