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Contents
Foreword
Introduction: NASA’s Solar System Exploration Paradigm: The First 50 Years and a Look at the Next 50
PART I: Overview
Chapter 1: Exploring the Solar System: Who Has Done It, How, and Why?
PART II: Politics and Policy in the Conduct of Solar System Exploration
Chapter 2: Funding Planetary Science: History and Political Economy
Chapter 3: The Politics of Pure Space Science, the Essential Tension: Human Spaceflight’s Impact on Scientific Exploration
PART III: The Lure of the Red Planet
Chapter 4: Designing Mars Sample Return, from Viking to the Mars Science Laboratory
Chapter 5: NASA, Big Science, and Mars Exploration: Critical Decisions from Goldin to Bolden
PART IV: Public Perceptions, Priorities, and Solar System Exploration
Chapter 6: Survivor! (?) The Story of S. mitis on the Moon
Chapter 7: “Killer Asteroids”: Popular Depictions and Public Policy Influence
Chapter 8: The Outer Solar System: Exploring Through the Public Eye
PART V: Exploring theOuter Solar System
Chapter 9: Europe’s Rendezvous with Titan:The European Space Agency’s Contribution to the Cassini-Huygens Mission to the Saturnian System
PART VI: Institutional Arrangements in Solar System Exploration
Chapter 10: Ranger: Circumstances, Events, Legacy
Chapter 11: Mariner 2 and the CSIRO Parkes Radio Telescope: 50 Years of International Collaboration
Chapter 12: International Cooperation in Solar System Exploration: A Transnational Approach to the History of the International Solar Polar Mission and Ulysses
Epilogue
Appendix
Program for “Solar System Exploration@50,” 25–26 October 2012
Acknowledgments
About the Authors
Acronyms
The NASA History Series
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