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"Account of unmanned lunar and planetary exploration from the early 1970s to the early 1990s"-- "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…
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3 editions- Other · English · 2016University of Nebraska Press · 9780803285170
- Other · English · 2016University of Nebraska Press · 9780803285156
- Other · English · 2016University of Nebraska Press · 496 pages · 9780803234468
Space probesArtificial satellitesPlanetsAstronautics, biographyAstronautics, historyMoon, explorationOuter space, explorationHISTORY / Modern / 20th Century