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Subject(s)

• Space astronomy—History [Browse]

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references (p. 476-481) and indexes.

Contents

• Early work with the V2
• Solar x-rays and the earth's ionosphere
• Non-solar x-ray sources
• Sputnik I
• The American programme pre-Sputnik
• The Soviet programme
• Early scientific results
• The formation of NASA
• Early lunar missions
• The first mission to Mars and Venus
• The American Ranger programme
• Korolev and the Russian programme
• Surveyor, Orbitor and Apollo
• The Soviet response
• Mariner 4 to Mars
• Russian disasters
• Venera 4
• Mariner 5 to Venus
• Veneras 5 and 6
• American funding problems
• Mariners 6 and 7
• Summary
• American plans for the early 1970s
• Veneras 7 and 8
• Mariner 10
• Mariner 9, Mars 2 and 3, and the Great Martian Dust Storm of 1971
• Mars 4 to 7
• Viking
• Veneras 9 and 10
• Pioneer-Venus
• Veneras 11 and 12
• International collaboration
• Veneras 13 to 16
• Planning the Halley encounters
• Vegas 1 and 2 at Venus
• The Halley intercepts
• Magellan
• The Phobos Spacecraft
• Mars Observer
• Programmatics and finance
• Pioneers 10 and 11
• The Voyager Spacecraft
• Voyager 1 at Jupitor
• Voyager 2 at Jupitor
• Voyager 1 at Saturn
• Voyager 2 at Saturn
• Voyager 2 at Uranus
• Voyager 2 at Neptune
• [The Sun] Early work
• The solar wind
• Flares
• The Corona
• Skylab
• Solar Max
• The solar constant
• Yohkoh
• Ulysses
• SOHO
• [Early spacecraft observations of non-solar system sources] Introduction
• Explorer 11 and gamma rays
• Orbiting astronomical observations and ultraviolet observations
• X-rays
• Pulsars
• Uhuru
• Copernicus
• The European dimension
• TD-1
• Dwarf Novae
• ANS
• Ariel 5
• AM Herculis-The first polar
• Gamma-rays
• Programmatics
• HEAO-1
• HEAO-2 or the Einstein Observatory
• SS 433
• HEAO-3
• The International Ultraviolet Explorer (IUE)
• The Infrared Astronomical Satellite (IRAS)
• Exosat
• COBE
• Supernova 1987A
• Rosat
• The Compton Gamma Ray Observatory
• Geminga
• Gamma ray bursts
• The Extreme Ultraviolet Explorer
• The Infrared Space Observatory
• [The Hubble Space Telescope] Pre-launch history
• The spacecraft and its insruments
• Launch and post-launch checkout
• Scientific results - The first three years
• Hardware problems and the first servicing mission
• The second three years
• Concluding remarks.

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ISBN

• 0521651379
• 0521658330 (pbk.)

LCCN

00041456

OCLC

44174182

RCP

C - S

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