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Informationen zum Autor 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. Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung Explores 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis List of IllustrationsForewordAcknowledgmentsIntroduction1. Beach Brainstorm2. What If...3. Dead at Birth4. Failure to Communicate5. Halt the Work, Destroy All Materials6. There and Back Again7. Sitting Cosmonauts8. Cauldron of Contradictions9. Buy-In10. "Prepared Area"11. Laying Eggs (Somehow)12. How Low Can You Go?13. Three Mistakes14. Devil from Redondo15. The Boy to Be Beaten16. How to Buy a Computer That Does Not Exist17. Downsurfing18. Gulliver's Travels19. Too Much Too Soon20. Scientific Charity21. Last Man Home22. Bonneville, Notch Rock, Double-Squirt, Sudden Death23. Post-Mortem24. Sons of a Bitch25. The Sum of All Nations26. Hang Time27. The Rules of Resigning28. Wonders Never CeaseSourcesIndex
