Exploring the planets : a memoir
Taylor, F. WAuthor
This personal account of how the space programme has evolved, explores how the motivations of researchers and politicians can merge to generate the large budgets required, and describes how the technology is planned and developed to make various feats like landing on Mars or Titan possible.
Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
Includes bibliographical references and index.
This personal account of how the space programme has evolved, explores how the motivations of researchers and politicians can merge to generate the large budgets required, and describes how the technology is planned and developed to make various feats like landing on Mars or Titan possible.
Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on January 28, 2016).
Prelude -- Satellites and spires -- The gateway to the planets -- Voyage to Venus -- With Galileo to Jupiter -- Back to Oxford -- Forecasting weather and climate -- The ozone layer and other crises -- Mishaps at Mars -- Operation Saturn -- The days of the comet -- Return to the silent planet -- Marooned on Mercury -- Mars at last -- Ice on the moon -- A beginner's guide to the end of the world -- STanding at the edge of time -- Epilogue.
Taylor, F. W.
Astrophysicists
Astronomy - General
Astronomy & Astrophysics
Physical Sciences & Mathematics