50 Years of Solar System Exploration

Historical Perspectives (With Original NASA Photographs)By National Aeronautics and Space Administration

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NASA's first successful mission to another planet, Mariner 2 to Venus in 1962, marked the beginning of what NASA Chief Scientist Jim Green describes in this volume as "a spectacular era" of solar system exploration. In its first 50 years of planetary exploration, NASA sent spacecraft to fly by, orbit, land on, or rove on every planet in our solar system, as well as Earth's Moon and several moons of other planets. Pluto, reclassified as a dwarf planet in 2006, was visited by the New Horizons spacecraft in 2015. In this volume, a diverse array of scholars addresses the science, technology, policy, and politics of planetary exploration. This volume offers a collection of in-depth studies of important projects, decisions, and milestones of this era. It is not possible to foresee what the next 50 years of NASA's planetary exploration program will reveal. However, the 2020s are already looking promising. Planetary missions in recent years have focused more and more on exploring potentially habitable environments in our solar system and developing a more in-depth understanding of the evolution of planetary environments. It is safe to say that by 2062, our understanding of our solar system will be radically different than it is today. And we will look forward to it.

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Publish dateJul 2, 2022

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150 Years of Solar System Exploration

12Chapter 7 “Killer Asteroids”: Popular Depictions and Public Policy Influence (Laura M. Delgado López)

2Introduction: NASA’s Solar System Exploration Paradigm: The First 50 Years and a Look at the Next 50 (James L. Green and Kristen J. Erickson)

13Chapter 8 The Outer Solar System: Exploring Through the Public Eye (Giny Cheong)

3PART I. Overview: Chapter 1 Exploring the Solar System: Who Has Done It, How, and Why? (Peter J. Westwick)

14Part V. Exploring the Outer Solar System: Chapter 9 Europe’s Rendezvous with Titan: The European Space Agency’s Contribution to the Cassini-Huygens Mission to the Saturnian System (Arturo Russo)

4PART II. Politics and Policy in the Conduct of Solar System Exploration

15Part VI. Institutional Arrangements in Solar System Exploration

5Chapter 2 Funding Planetary Science: History and Political Economy (Jason W. Callahan)

16Chapter 10 Ranger: Circumstances, Events, Legacy (James D. Burke and Harris M. Schurmeier)

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6Chapter 3 The Politics of Pure Space Science, the Essential Tension: Human Spaceflight’s Impact on Scientific Exploration (Roger Handberg)

17Chapter 11 Mariner 2 and the CSIRO Parkes Radio Telescope: 50 Years of International Collaboration (John Sarkissian)

7PART III. The Lure of the Red Planet

18Chapter 12 International Cooperation in Solar System Exploration: A Transnational Approach to the History of the International Solar Polar Mission and Ulysses (Petar Markovski)

8Chapter 4 Designing Mars Sample Return, from Viking to the Mars Science Laboratory (Erik M. Conway)

19Epilogue (Linda Billings)

9Chapter 5 NASA, Big Science, and Mars Exploration: Critical Decisions from Goldin to Bolden (W. Henry Lambright)

20Acknowledgments

10PART IV. Public Perceptions, Priorities, and Solar System Exploration

21About the Authors

11Chapter 6 Survivor! (?) The Story of S. mitis on the Moon (Linda Billings)

22Acronyms