50 years of solar system exploration : historical perspectives / edited by Linda Billings.

Format:

Book

Conference/Event

Government document

Contributor:

Billings, Linda, editor.

United States. NASA History Division, issuing body.

Conference Name:

Solar System Exploration @ 50 (2012 : Washington, D.C.), author.

Series:

NASA SP (Series) ; 4705.

NASA SP ; 2021-4705

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

United States. National Aeronautics and Space Administration--History--Congresses.

United States.

Planets--Exploration--History--Congresses.

Planets.

Space flight--History--Congresses.

Space flight.

Astronautics--History--Congresses.

Astronautics.

Space sciences--History--Congresses.

Space sciences.

Outer space--Exploration--History--Congresses.

Outer space.

United States. National Aeronautics and Space Administration.

Exploration of outer space.

Planets--Exploration.

Genre:

Conference papers and proceedings.

History.

Physical Description:

viii, 352 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm.

Other Title:

Solar system exploration : historical perspectives

Fifty years of solar system exploration

Place of Publication:

Washington, DC : National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Office of Communications, NASA History Division, [2021]

Summary:

"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"--Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Introduction: NASA's solar system exploration paradigm : the first fifty years and a look at the next fifty / James L. Green and Kristen J. Erickson

Part I. Overview. Exploring the Solar System : who has done it, how, and why? / Peter Westwick

Part II. Politics and policy in the conduct of solar system exploration. Funding planetary science : history and political economy / Jason W. Callahan ; The politics of pure space science, the essential tension: Human spaceflight's impact on scientific exploration / Roger Handberg

Part III. The lure of the red planet. Designing Mars sample return, from Viking to the Mars Science Laboratory / Erik M. Conway ; NASA, big science, and Mars exploration : Critical decisions from Goldin to Bolden / W. Henry Lambright

Part IV. Public perceptions, priorities, and solar system exploration. Survivor! (?) : The story of S. Mitis on the Moon / Linda Billings ; "Killer asteroids" : Popular depictions and public policy influence / Laura Delgado López ; The outer solar system : Exploring through the public eye / Giny Cheong

Part V. Exploring the outer solar system. Europe's rendezvous with Titan : The European Space Agency's contribution to the Cassini-Huygens Mission to the Saturnian system / Arturo Russo

Part VI. Institutional arrangements in solar system exploration. Ranger : Circumstances, events, legacy / James D. Burke and Harris M. Schurmeier ; Mariner 2 and the CSIRO Parkes Radio Telescope : 50 years of international collaboration / John Sarkissian ; International cooperation in solar system exploration : A transnational approach to the history of the International Solar Polar Mission and Ulysses / Petar Markovski.

Notes:

Shipping list no.: 2022-0062-P.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Solar System Exploration @ 50 (2012 : Washington, D.C.). 50 years of solar system exploration.

ISBN:

9781626830530

1626830533

OCLC:

1150822256