LEADER 04594nam 2200709 450 001 9910815469503321 005 20230808212631.0 010 $a0-8032-8515-9 010 $a0-8032-8517-5 035 $a(CKB)3710000000517183 035 $a(EBL)4095866 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC4094943 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC4095866 035 $a(OCoLC)929857793 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse46606 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL4095866 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr11119524 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL869903 035 $a(OCoLC)930018801 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000000517183 100 $a20151127h20162016 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $2rdacontent 182 $2rdamedia 183 $2rdacarrier 200 10$aInfinity beckoned $eadventuring through the inner solar system, 1969-1989 /$fJay Gallentine ; foreword by Bobak Ferdowsi 210 1$aLincoln, Nebraska ;$aLondon, [England] :$cUniversity of Nebraska Press,$d2016. 210 4$dİ2016 215 $a1 online resource (497 p.) 225 0 $aOutward Odyssey, A People's History of Spaceflight 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-8032-3446-5 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aCover ; Title Page ; Copyright Page ; Contents ; 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 327 $a21. Last Man Home22. Bonneville, Notch Rock, Double Squirt, Sudden Death; 23. Postmortem; 24. Sons of a Bitch; 25. The Sum of All Nations; 26. Hang Time; 27. The Rules of Resigning; 28. Wonders Never Cease; Sources; Index 330 2 $a"Infinity Beckoned illuminates a critical period of space history when humans dared an expansive leap into the inner solar system. With an irreverent and engaging style, Jay Gallentine conveys the trials and triumphs of the people on the ground who conceived and engineered the missions that put robotic spacecraft on the heavenly bodies nearest our own. These dedicated space pioneers include such individuals as Soviet Russia's director of planetary missions, who hated his job but kept at it for fifteen years, enduring a paranoid bureaucracy where even the copy machines were strictly regulated. Based on numerous interviews, Gallentine delivers a rich variety of stories involving the men and women, American and Russian, responsible for such groundbreaking endeavors as the Mars Viking missions of the 1970s and the Soviet Venera flights to Venus in the 1980s. From the dreamers responsible for the Venus landing who discovered that dropping down through heavy clouds of sulfuric acid and 900-degree heat was best accomplished by surfing to the five-man teams puppeteering the Soviet moon rovers from a top-secret, off-the-map town without a name, the people who come to life in these pages persevered in often trying, thankless circumstances. Their legacy is our better understanding of our own planet and our place in the cosmos"--$cProvided by publisher. 330 2 $a"Account of unmanned lunar and planetary exploration from the early 1970s to the early 1990s"--$cProvided by publisher. 410 0$aOutward Odyssey: A People's History of Spaceflight 606 $aSpace probes$xHistory$y20th century 606 $aArtificial satellites$xHistory$y20th century 606 $aInner planets$xExploration$xHistory$y20th century 606 $aAstronautics$vBiography 606 $aAstronautics$xHistory$y20th century 607 $aMoon$xExploration$xHistory$y20th century 607 $aOuter space$xExploration$xHistory$y20th century 615 0$aSpace probes$xHistory 615 0$aArtificial satellites$xHistory 615 0$aInner planets$xExploration$xHistory 615 0$aAstronautics 615 0$aAstronautics$xHistory 676 $a629.43/54 686 $aHIS037070$2bisacsh 700 $aGallentine$b Jay$01704753 702 $aFerdowsi$b Bobak 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910815469503321 996 $aInfinity beckoned$94090966 997 $aUNINA