Interplanetary robots : true stories of space exploration /: true stories of space exploration. (2019)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Rod Pyle.
• Authors: Pyle, Rod
• Contents: Introduction -- Alone in the dark -- The center of the universe: part 1 -- Early plans -- Frau im Mond -- Suicide on the moon -- Flash forward: the lunar flashlight -- Mars in the crosshairs -- Flash forward: MarCO -- Landing on luna incognita -- Russian rovers -- Flash forward: prospecting the moon -- The center of the universe: part 2 -- Voyagers on Mars? -- ...And then came viking -- Flash forward: Mars has MOXIE! -- Barnstorming Venus: part 1 -- Barnstorming Venus: part 2 -- Flash forward: the tick-tock rover -- The center of the universe: part 3 -- A grand-ish tour -- Pioneering Jupiter and Saturn -- JPL's finest hour: the voyagers, part 1 -- Brief encounters: the voyagers, part 2 -- Into the void: the voyagers, part 3 -- Flash forward: going interstellar -- Not by a longshot -- Ruddy chunks of a red planet: Mars 5M -- Flash forward: robotic rendezvous at Mars -- Jupiter's revenge -- Flash forward: inflatable antennas -- The center of the universe: part 4 -- Saturn ahoy -- Flash forward: diving on Titan -- A return to Mars -- Flash forward: grabbing those samples -- Other missions of exploration and discovery -- The center of the universe: part 5 -- Photo insert -- Notes -- Index.
• Publisher Details: Amherst, New York : Prometheus Books
• Publication Date: 2019
• Copyright Date: 2019
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 629.43/54; Astronautics -- United States -- History; Space robotics -- United States -- History; TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / Aeronautics & Astronautics; TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / Engineering (General); Astronautics; Space robotics; United States; Electronic books; Electronic books; History
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781633885035; 1633885038
• Related ISBNs: 9781633885028
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on March 29, 2019).
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