Journey beyond Selēnē
Subtitle: remarkable expeditions past our moon and to the ends of the solar system
By: Jeffrey Kluger.
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Published: 1999
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 314
Subjects: Space probes -- History.; Space flight -- History.; Outer space -- Exploration -- United States -- History.
Description: This is the story of the men and women of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California. These scientists and engineers have been "on the cutting edge of exploration for more than forty years, hammering together unmanned spaceships, mounting them atop rockets, and flinging them not just to our own moon but to the ends of the solar system.
Notes: Includes index.