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Space Missions of the Super70sBy Patrick Mondout
Our favorite decade was a golden age of planetary exploration. The
United States launched missions to Mercury, Mars, Venus, Saturn and
Jupiter. In fact the incredible Voyager
spacecraft eventually made it to Uranus and Neptune (in the 1980s) leaving
Pluto as the only planet which has not been visited. The Soviets landed
the first successful spacecraft on Venus and made many visits to the
Mercury, the Moon and Mars. SkyLab and Comet
Kohoutek became the punchlines to so many Johnny Carson jokes even Mars
was smiling!
From the near tragedy of Apollo 13
to the joint US/USSR Apollo-Soyuz
mission, here are the most important space missions during the
Super70s by nation:
Source: NASA.
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Space References (Books):
Dickinson, Terence. Nightwatch:
A Practical Guide to Viewing the Universe. Firefly Books, 1998.
Greene, Brian. Elegant
Universe: Superstrings, Hidden Dimensions, and the Quest for the Ultimate
Theory. Vintage, 2000.
Hawking, Stephen. Illustrated
Brief History of Time, Updated and Expanded Edition. Bantam, 1996.
Hawking, Stephen. Theory
of Everything: The Origin and Fate of the Universe. New Millenium,
2002.
Hawking, Stephen. The
Universe in a Nutshell. Bantam, 2001.
Kaku, Michio. Hyperspace:
A Scientific Odyssey Through Parallel Universes, Time Warps and the Tenth
Dimension.
Kranz, Gene. Failure
Is Not an Option: Mission Control from Mercury to Apollo 13 and Beyond.
Berkley Pub Group, 2001.
Sagan, Carl; Druyan, Ann. Comet,
Revised Edition. Ballantine, 1997
Sagan, Carl. Cosmos,
Reissue Edition. Ballantine, 1993
Sagan, Carl. Pale
Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space. Ballantine, 1997
Space References (Videos):
Cosmos.
PBS, 2000.
Stephen
Hawking's Universe. PBS, 1997.
Hyperspace.
BBC, 2002.
Life
Beyond Earth PBS, 1999.
The Planets. BBC, 1999.
Understanding
The Universe. A&E, 1996.
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