Soviet Robots in the Solar System: Mission Technologies and Discoveries (Space Exploration) - Softcover

Huntress, Wesley T.; Marov, Mikhail Ya

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1441978976 ISBN 13: 9781441978974

Publisher: Springer, 2011

Synopsis

Written by the former head of NASA’s robotic solar system exploration division, this book makes a unique contribution to understanding the scientific and engineering accomplishments of the USSR’s robotic space exploration arm from its infancy to its demise.

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From the Back Cover:

The Soviet robotic space exploration program began in a spirit of bold adventure and technical genius. It ended after the fall of the Soviet Union and the failure of its last mission to Mars in 1996. Soviet Robots in the Solar System chronicles the scientific and engineering accomplishments of this enterprise from its infancy to its demise. Each flight campaign is set into context of national politics and international competition with the United States.

Together with its many detailed illustrations and images, Soviet Robots in the Solar System

• presents the most detailed technical description of Soviet robotic space flights
• provides a unique insight into programmatic, engineering, and scientific issues
• covers mission objectives, spacecraft engineering, flight details, scientific payload and results
• describes in technical depth Soviet lunar and planetary probes

About the Author:

Dr. Wesley T. Huntress, Jr., is currently Director Emeritus at the Geophysical Laboratory of the Carnegie Institution of Washington. The author was the widely respected Director of NASA’s Solar System Exploration Directorate from 1990 to 1992, and then Associate Administrator for Space Science from 1993 to 1998, where he was responsible for all of NASA’s robotic science missions. During this time, and throughout his long and distinguished career, Dr. Huntress, Jr. has had a regular and sustained contact and interaction with the Russians. He has gained great appreciation of the Russian robotic exploration program of the Moon and the planets during the 20th century.

Mikhail Marov is a long-time veteran of the Soviet scientific space program with experience on many past missions beginning the early 1970s and is currently at the Vernadsky Institute of Geochemistry in Moscow, one of the two principal scientific institutes involved in the Russian space program.  He is well known internationally and is one of the most recognizable Russian experts in space science and exploration around the world.  

About this edition

• Publisher: Springer
• Publication date: 2011
• ISBN 10: 1441978976
• ISBN 13: 9781441978974
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 473