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978-0-387-68367-6

Distant Worlds : Milestones in Planetary Exploration

Publication year: 2007

ISBN: 978-0-387-68367-6

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Peter Bond provides an overview of key, unmanned missions, chapter by chapter, to planets in the twentieth century. He tells the story of the mission planners and engineers who, working mostly in the background, made these unprecedented achievements in scientific exploration possible.


Subject: Physics and Astronomy, Planet, Solar System, astronomy, moon, solar, space, space exploration