Research Catalog

Title

Russian planetary exploration : history, development, legacy, prospects / Brian Harvey.

Author

Harvey, Brian, 1953-

Publication

Berlin ; New York : Springer ; Chichester, UK : In association with Praxis Pub., c2007.

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Details

Description

xxi, 351 p. : ill., map, ports.; 25 cm.

Summary

"This book assesses the scientific haul of data from the Venus and Mars missions and examines the engineering techniques and the science packages used, as well as the difficulties which ruined several missions. The book is illustrated with photographs taken by Soviet Venus and Mars probes, and with material from the program that has only come to light in recent years, such as pictures of the spacecraft, diagrams of the flight paths and landing techniques and maps of the landing sites."--BOOK JACKET.

Series Statement

Springer-Praxis books in space exploration

Uniform Title

• Springer Praxis Books
• Springer-Praxis books in space exploration.

Subjects

• Extraterrestrial Physics, Space Sciences
• Astrophysics
• Astronomy
• Physics
• Space flights
• Interplanetary voyages
• Planets > Exploration
• Space flight to Venus
• Space flight to Mars
• Astronautics > Russia
• Astronautics > Soviet Union

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. [339]-345) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

1. Aelita -- 2. First plans -- 3. The first Mars, Venus probes -- 4. OKB Lavochkin -- 5. First landfall on Venus, Mars -- 6. The high summer of Soviet planetary exploration, 1975-1986 -- 7. Phobos, crisis and decline -- 8. Returning to the planets? -- 9. The legacy -- App. A. Soviet and Russian planetary missions -- App. B. Where are they now? -- App. C. Bibliography.

ISBN

• 0387463437
• 9780387463438

LCCN

^^2006938306

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library