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Ambassadors from Earth: Pioneering Explorations with Unmanned Spacecraft (Outward Odyssey: A People's History of Spaceflight) by Jay Gallentine is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.
What is Ambassadors from Earth: Pioneering Explorations with Unmanned Spacecraft (Outward Odyssey: A People's History of Spaceflight) about?
Rewind to the 1950s and ponder: was America's first satellite really built by a college student? How did a small band of underappreciated Russian engineers get pictures of the moon s far side using stolen American film? As the 1960s progressed, consider: how the heck did people learn to steer a spacecraft using nothing but gravity? And just how were humans able to goose a spaceship through a thirty-year journey to the literal edge of our solar system?Ambassadors from Earth relates the story of the first unmanned space probes and planetary explorers from the Sputnik and Explorer satellites launched in the late 1950s to the thrilling interstellar Voyager missions of the '70s that yielded some of the most celebrated successes and spectacular failures of the space age. Keep in mind that our first mad scrambles to reach orbit, the moon, and the planets were littered with enough histrionics and cliffhanging turmoil to rival the most far-out sci-fi film. Utilizing original interviews with key players, bolstered by never-before-seen photographs, journal excerpts, and primary source documents, Jay Gallentine delivers a quirky and unforgettable look at the lives and legacy of the Americans a
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Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Jay Gallentine
- Publisher
- University of Nebraska Press
- Published
- 2009
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781282423749
- Category
- nonfiction
- Subjects
- Engineering, Science, Technology
- Rating
- 4.28 / 5 (17 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14
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