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Ambassadors from Earth: Pioneering Explorations with Unmanned Spacecraft
Jay Gallentine
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Description for Ambassadors from Earth: Pioneering Explorations with Unmanned Spacecraft
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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 side—using 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? Ambassadors from Earth relates the story of the first unmanned space probes and planetary explorers—from the Sputnik and Explorer satellites launched in the late 1950s ... Read more
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 side—using 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? Ambassadors from Earth relates the story of the first unmanned space probes and planetary explorers—from the Sputnik and Explorer satellites launched in the late 1950s ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
University of Nebraska Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
520
Place of Publication
Lincoln, United States
ISBN
9780803249233
SKU
V9780803249233
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About Jay Gallentine
Jay Gallentine is a film and video engineer with a lifelong interest in space exploration.
Reviews for Ambassadors from Earth: Pioneering Explorations with Unmanned Spacecraft
Many space buffs, especially young ones, should find this a satisfying narrative." - Publishers Weekly