From the very beginning of its association with NASA in 1958, the Jet Propulsion Laboratory UPL) received its fair share of public recognition for its successes and failures in pursuing the exploration of deep space. It started with the Explorers, the first American satellites to orbit Earth. Later there came the Rangers, the first spacecraft to reach the surface of the Moon; the Mariner spacecraft, first to visit Venus and Mars; and the Voyagers that pushed the boundaries of deep space communication further out to Jupiter and Saturn, and eventually to Uranus and Neptune. There were other...
From the very beginning of its association with NASA in 1958, the Jet Propulsion Laboratory UPL) received its fair share of public recognition for its...
Surely there can be a few people in this day and age who are not familiar with the television images of a NASA spacecraft blasting off from Cape Kennedy in a splendid gout of smoke, fire, and steam to a rendezvous with an asteroid, comet, or planet in some remote corner of the solar system. This book is a history of the the deep space network which involves sending spacecrafts to space.
Surely there can be a few people in this day and age who are not familiar with the television images of a NASA spacecraft blasting off from Cape Kenne...
