50 Years of Solar System Exploration: Historical Perspectives

U.S. Government,Roger Handberg,Jason W. Callahan,Peter J. Westwick,Erik M. Conway,Laura M. Delgado LĂ pez,Giny Cheong,W. Henry Lambright,Arturo Russo,James D. Burke,Harris M. Schurmeier,John Sarkissian,Peter Markovski

ISBN 10: 1626830533 / ISBN 13: 9781626830530

Published by National Aeronautics and Space A, 2022

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• Title: 50 Years of Solar System Exploration: Historical Perspectives
• Publisher: National Aeronautics and Space A
• Publication Date: 2022
• ISBN 10: 1626830533
• ISBN 13: 9781626830530
• Binding: hardcover
• Condition: Very Good

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"To commemorate the 50th anniversary of the first successful planetary mission, Mariner 2 sent to Venus in 1962, the NASA History Program Office, the Division of Space History at the National Air and Space Museum, NASA's Science Mission Directorate, and the Jet Propulsion Laboratory organized a symposium. "Solar System Exploration @ 50" was held in Washington, D.C., on 25-26 October 2012. The purpose of this symposium was to consider, over the more than 50-year history of the Space Age, what we have learned about the other bodies of the solar system and the processes by which we have learned it. Symposium organizers asked authors to address broad topics relating to the history of solar system exploration such as various flight projects, the development of space science disciplines, the relationship between robotic exploration and human spaceflight, the development of instruments and methodologies for scientific exploration, as well as the development of theories about planetary science, solar system origins and implications for other worlds. The papers in this volume provide a richly textured picture of important developments - and some colorful characters - in a half century of solar system exploration. A comprehensive history of the first 50 years of solar system exploration would fill many volumes. What readers will find in this volume is a collection of interesting stories about money, politics, human resources, commitment, competition and cooperation, and the "faster, better, cheaper" era of solar system exploration"--