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Chargement... Infinity Beckoned: Adventuring Through the Inner Solar System, 1969–1989 (Outward Odyssey: A People's History of S)par Jay Gallentine
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Inscrivez-vous à LibraryThing pour découvrir si vous aimerez ce livre Actuellement, il n'y a pas de discussions au sujet de ce livre. I've never read anything of substance about the Russian side of the story so it was extremely interesting to me. Impressed by how the author tracked down so many people responsible. I really disliked the informal tone the book is written in. It's OK to quote interviewees in natural language but adding it to normal prose is forced and plain annoying. ( ) I'm not quite sure what I make of this book which tries to cover a very technical topic in a very colloquial and pop writing style; which I wound up finding a little annoying. Still, in examining the unmanned American & Russian planetary missions of the time, the overarching theme might be that for all the effort the results remain rather ambiguous and that there has not been enough follow-up research. To be blunt, the Viking Mars landers were probably over-ambitious and engineered to ask the wrong questions whereas the Soviet efforts were undercut by a lagging electronics & computer base on one hand the and the irrationalities of the Soviet system on the other; bureaucratic friction is the soul of this story. There is no doubt though that the author has put forth a great deal of journalistic effort into this book and he deserves respect on that basis. aucune critique | ajouter une critique
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"Infinity Beckoned illuminates a critical period of space history when humans dared an expansive leap into the inner solar system. With an irreverent and engaging style, Jay Gallentine conveys the trials and triumphs of the people on the ground who conceived and engineered the missions that put robotic spacecraft on the heavenly bodies nearest our own. These dedicated space pioneers include such individuals as Soviet Russia's director of planetary missions, who hated his job but kept at it for fifteen years, enduring a paranoid bureaucracy where even the copy machines were strictly regulated. Based on numerous interviews, Gallentine delivers a rich variety of stories involving the men and women, American and Russian, responsible for such groundbreaking endeavors as the Mars Viking missions of the 1970s and the Soviet Venera flights to Venus in the 1980s. From the dreamers responsible for the Venus landing who discovered that dropping down through heavy clouds of sulfuric acid and 900-degree heat was best accomplished by surfing to the five-man teams puppeteering the Soviet moon rovers from a top-secret, off-the-map town without a name, the people who come to life in these pages persevered in often trying, thankless circumstances. Their legacy is our better understanding of our own planet and our place in the cosmos"--
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Google Books — Chargement... GenresClassification décimale de Melvil (CDD)629.43Technology Engineering and allied operations Other Branches Astronauts and Space Travel Un-manned spacecraftClassification de la Bibliothèque du CongrèsÉvaluationMoyenne:
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