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Paolo Ulivi and David Harland provide in Robotic Exploration of the Solar System a detailed history of unmanned missions of exploration of our Solar System As in their previous book Lunar Exploration, the subject will be treated wherever possible from an engineering and scientific standpoint. Technical descriptions of the spacecraft, of their mission designs and of instrumentations will be provided. Scientific results will be discussed in considerable...

Presents twenty-five articles from various newspapers and magazines on space exploration, including John Glenn's return voyage, Mars exploration, the International Space Station, private enterprise, and new technologies and discoveries; also includes a bibliography.

With a focus on China, the United States, and India, Scramble for the Skies examines the ambitions of the second space race. Namrata Goswami and Peter A. Garretson explain how international competition, strategic culture, and elite preferences influence the development of national space programs, policy, and law. -- Back cover

Murray provides a personal account of the nation's planetary exploration program from the "golden age" of the 1960s and early 1970s to its subsequent decline during the '80s. Murray concludes that, given a goal, the nation can regain leadership in space, and he advocates a joint U.S.-Soviet manned mission to Mars as well as NASA's proposed Mission to Earth, a global environmental monitoring program. ISBN 0-393-02675-2: $19.95.

Presents his case and a detailed agenda for a space program that could solve the Earth's energy, environmental, and nuclear problems.

"This book examines the U.S. space program's triumphs and failures in order to assess what constitutes a successful space policy. Using NASA and the space industry's complex history as a guide, it draws global lessons about space missions and the trends we can expect from different nations in the next decade and beyond. Space exploration has become increasingly dependent on cooperation between countries as well as the involvement of private enterprise....

Discusses what man has learned of other worlds in 30 years of space exploration.

Explains how scientists search for life in other parts of the universe, discussing alien life, exobiology, interstellar contact, spacecraft missions, and other related topics.