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  • Infinity Beckoned: Adventuring Through the Inner Solar System, 1969–1989

    Infinity Beckoned by Gallentine, Jay;

    Adventuring Through the Inner Solar System, 1969–1989

    Series: Outward Odyssey: a People's History of Spaceflight;

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    Product details:

    • Publisher University of Nebraska Press
    • Date of Publication 1 January 2016
    • Number of Volumes Cloth Over Boards

    • ISBN 9780803234468
    • Binding Hardback
    • No. of pages496 pages
    • Size 229x152 mm
    • Weight 868 g
    • Language English
    • Illustrations 52 photographs
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    Infinity Beckoned illuminates 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. These dedicated space pioneers include such individuals as Soviet Russia’s director of planetary missions, who hated his job but kept at it for fifteen years, enduring a paranoid bureaucracy where even the copy machines were strictly regulated.
    Based on numerous interviews, Gallentine delivers a rich variety of stories involving the men and women, American and Russian, responsible for such groundbreaking endeavors as the Mars Viking missions of the 1970s and the Soviet Venera flights to Venus in the 1980s. From the dreamers responsible for the Venus landing who discovered that dropping down through heavy clouds of sulfuric acid and 900-degree heat was best accomplished by surfing to the five-man teams puppeteering the Soviet moon rovers from a top-secret, off-the-map town without a name, the people who come to life in these pages persevered in often trying, thankless circumstances. Their legacy is our better understanding of our own planet and our place in the cosmos.

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    Table of Contents:

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    List of Illustrations
    Foreword
    Acknowledgments
    Introduction
    1. Beach Brainstorm
    2. What If...
    3. Dead at Birth
    4. Failure to Communicate
    5. Halt the Work, Destroy All Materials
    6. There and Back Again
    7. Sitting Cosmonauts
    8. Cauldron of Contradictions
    9. Buy-In
    10. ""Prepared Area""
    11. Laying Eggs (Somehow)
    12. How Low Can You Go?
    13. Three Mistakes
    14. Devil from Redondo
    15. The Boy to Be Beaten
    16. How to Buy a Computer That Does Not Exist
    17. Downsurfing
    18. Gulliver's Travels
    19. Too Much Too Soon
    20. Scientific Charity
    21. Last Man Home
    22. Bonneville, Notch Rock, Double-Squirt, Sudden Death
    23. Post-Mortem
    24. Sons of a Bitch
    25. The Sum of All Nations
    26. Hang Time
    27. The Rules of Resigning
    28. Wonders Never Cease
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    Index

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