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power of
public support of
as quest
research derived from
and return
self-reference of
and settlement
ships’ logs of
of space
and treaties
by unwelcome visitors
virtual
see also Great Ages of Discovery
Explorer 1:
launch of
meanings of
as museum exhibit
success of
Faulkner, William
Fernandes, António
Fernández-Armesto, Felipe
Ferris, Timothy
First Great Age, see Great Voyages
FitzRoy, Robert
Flandro, Gary
Fletcher, James
Florida, name of
Fomalhaut (star)
Forster, Georg, A Voyage Round the World
Fram
France, explorers from
Francis Xavier, Saint
Franklin, Sir John
Franklin Expedition
Fremont, Bessie
Fremont, John Charles
Freud, Sigmund
Friedman, Louis
Fritz, Father Samuel
Frobisher, Martin
Frost, Robert
Galaissière, Legentil de la
Galapagos Islands
Galatea (Neptune moon)
Galilean moons
Galileo Galilei
Galileo spacecraft
Ganymede (Jovian moon)
Gazetteer of Planetary Nomenclature
Gemini, as museum exhibit
Giacobini-Zinner comet probe ICE
Gilbert, G. K.
Gilbert, Humphrey
Giotto Halley probes
Glennan, T. Keith
Glomar Challenger (RV)
Goddard, Robert
Goddard Space Flight Center
Gödel, Kurt
Goetzmann, William
Goldberger, Marvin
Golden Hind
Gomeisa (star)
Grand Canyon
Grand Tour:
beginning of
completion of
costs of
duration of
escape velocities of
external pressures of
future possibilities for
as grand gesture
idea of
inevitability of
internal pressures of
launch window for
as MJS 77
mythological aspects of
and national prestige
occultation of
opponents of
opportunity for
Pioneer preparations for
planning for
promotion of
and termination shock
vision of
see also Voyager program
gravitational perturbation technique
gravity assistance
Great Ages of Discovery:
continuity of
First (Great Voyages)
islands as symbols of
lumpers vs. splitters on
Second
Third
Great Conjunction
Greater Modernism
Great Game
Great Observatories
Great Red Spot
Great Salt Lake, discovery of
Great Surveys of the American West
Great Voyages:
circumnavigation in
commercial and geopolitical purposes of
communication in
critics of
echoes of
as First Great Age
fleets in
freelancers in
grand gesture of
and islands
names assigned in
and national sovereignty
Ocean Sea discovered in
passages of
passage to India sought in
promoters of
questing mariners of
sails and shipbuilding
and science
tide and winds
treaties of
and volcanoes
Greenland
Griego, John
Griffon
Grotius, Hugo
Guerrero, Gonzalo
Guggenheim Aeronautical Laboratory
Haynes, Norm
Hakluyt, Richard
Halley probes
Hansen, Candice
Harrison, John
Hawkesworth, John
Hayden, Ferdinand Vandeveer
Hayden Expedition
Haynes, Norman
Hazard, Allan
Heacock, Raymond
Heinlein, Robert
Heisenberg, Werner
heliopause, and termination shock
Helios
heliosheath, perimeter of
heliosphere, structure of
Henry Mountains
Henry the Navigator, Prince
Hess, Harry, “History of Ocean Basins”
Hetherington, Norriss
Hilton, James
Hodges, William
Hohmann, Walter
Hohmann transfer ellipses
Holmes, Oliver Wendell
Homer, Odyssey
Hooker, Joseph
Hubble Space Telescope (HST)
Hudson, Henry
Humboldt, Alexander von
atlas created by
as exemplar of the age
and New Spain
writings of
Hurley, Frank
Huxley, Thomas
Huygens mission to Titan
Hyperion (Saturnian moon)
Iapetus (Saturnian moon)
Ibn Majid (navigator)
Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition
India:
Britain vs. France in
routes sought to
satellites of
trade sought with
Institut d’Egypte
The Description of Egypt
and Rosetta Stone
International Astronomical Union (IAU)
International Court of Justice
International Geophysical Year (IGY)
and Antarctica
beginning of
new age proclaimed in
and ocean exploration
and planetary exploration
and Sputnik
Upper Atmosphere Research Panel
International Polar Year
International Seabed Authority
Io (Jovian moon):
photo images of
volcanoes of
Islam, travelers of
Island of the Seven Cities
islands
Ives, Joseph
Jackson, David
James, Thomas
James, William
James Caird
Japan, satellites of
Jason (robot)
Jefferson, Thomas
Jeffreys, Sir Harold
Jesuits
Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL):
Advanced Studies Office
on autopilot
beginning of
and Explorer
as exploring institution
foundational framework for vehicles of
Grand Tour planning in
and gravity assist
Image Processing Laboratory
managerial style of
Mars group
military and civilian goals in
mission controllers in
mission-design program
and NASA
and Pioneer
and Ranger
Voyager communications with
Voyager made possible by
Johnson, Lyndon B.
Johnson, Samuel
Joint Long Range Proving Ground
Jupiter
bow shock at
; distance to
Galileo mission to
Grand Tour planning for
gravitational assist from
and Great Conjunction
hard geography of
Jovian system
launch window for
magnetosphere of
moons of
photos of
Pioneer’s encounters with
radiation field
rings of
soft geography of
surveys of
and three-body problem
volcanoes of
Voyagers’ encounters with
Jupiter missiles (IRBM)
Kármán, Theodore von
Kerkar, Surashri Kesarbai
Khabarov, Yerofey
King, Clarence
King Survey
Kipling, Rudyard, “Recessional”
Knute, King
Kohlhase, Charles
Koppes, Clayton
Krebs cycle
Kubrick, Stanley
Kuhn, Thomas, The Structure of Scientific Revolutions
Kuiper, Gerald P.
Kuiper Belt
La Condamine, Charles-Marie de
Laeser, Richard
Lagrange points
La Malinche
Langley Research Center
Larissa (Neptune moon)
La Salle, René-Robert Cavelier de
Las Casas, Bartolomé de
Launius, Roger
Law of the Sea
Leahy brothers
Ledyard, John
Leibniz, Gottfried
Lewis, Meriwether
Lewis and Clark
boats of
Corps of Discovery
distance traveled by
point of departure
and Sacajawea
written reports of
Ley, Willy, The Exploration of Mars
Limited Test Ban Treaty
Linnaeus, Carolus
Livingstone, David
Lobo, Father Jerome, A Voyage to Abyssinia
Lomax, Alan
Lomberg, Jon
Long, James
Long, Stephen
Long Expedition (1819-21)
longitude, determining
Lowell, Percival
Lunik I and II
MacArthur, Robert
Mackenzie, Alexander
Magellan, Ferdinand
Armada de Molucca
death of
losses of
miseries of the crew
ships of
successes of
voyage as grand gesture
written accounts of voyage
Magellan mission to Venus
magnetophere, collision with
Mailer, Norman
Malaspina, Alejandro
Manuel I, king of Portugal
Marianas Trench
Mariner
evolution of
Mariner 1’s failure to launch
Mariner 2
Mariner 4
Mariner 6 and 7
Mariner 9
Mariner 10
and Mars
as museum exhibit
and Venus
Mariner Jupiter/Saturn 1977 (MJS 77)
Mars:
competition for
distance to
flybys of
Hohmann trajectories to
as island
launch window for
Mariner at
nomenclature of
photos of
as possible goal
potential settlement of
robotic experiences on
search for life on
Viking on
Marshall Space Flight Center
Mars Observer
Mars Study Committee
Martyr, Peter (Pietro Martire d’Anghiera)
Masursky, Harold
Matthes, François
Matthew
Maupertuis, Pierre
Maury, Matthew, The Physical Geography of the Sea
Mawson, Douglas
Maximilian of Wied, Prince
Melchior (Indian interpreter)
Mendes Pinto, Fernão, Peregrinicão
Mercury
Merritt Island, Florida
Michener, James
Miller, Stanley
Mimas (Saturnian moon)
Miner, Ellis
Minovitch, Michael
Miranda (Uranus moon)
Mirnyy
missionaries
Mississippi River
Missouri River
modernism:
Greater Modernism
intellectual revolution of
and self-reference
and Third Great Age
voice of
Möllhausen, Heinrich
Monge, Gaspard
Montaigne, Michel Eyquem de
Moon:
Apollo landing on
competition for
as obvious first objective
photos of and from
potential settlement of
Ranger on
rocks from
thinking beyond
tidal pull of
Voyager passing
Moon Treaty
Moore’s Law
Morabito, Linda
Moran, Thomas
More, Thomas, Utopia
Morison, Samuel Eliot
Morrison, Philip
Mount Chimborazo, Ecuador
Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus
Muller, H. J.
Murchison, Roderick
Murray, Bruce
on luck
and Mars Study Committee
and Planetary Society
on robots
on space shuttle
on Voyager mission
Muscovy Company
Mutch, Tim
Nansen, Frijthof
Napoleon Bonaparte
NASA:
approvals issued by
and budgets
bureaucracy of
charter of
fissures within
formation of
future direction of
geopolitical motives in
golden age of manned flight
and JPL
military vs. civilian aims of
mission controllers in
Office of Lunar and Planetary Programs
Office of Space Science and Applications
Outer Planets Working Group
and Project VEGA
and space shuttle
National Academy of Sciences (NAS)
National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA)
National Air and Space Museum (NASM)
National Geographic
National Geographic Society
national sovereignty
Nautilus
Naval Research Laboratory
navigation:
course corrections in
by dead reckoning
determining longitude
earth-based
instruments of
orbit determinations
and pilotage
range of uncertainty
by stars
by the Sun
for Voyager
Navy, U.S.
Neptune:
assessment conference on
distance to
Grand Tour ending at
Grand Tour planning for
magnetosphere of
moons of
occultations of
photos of
preparation for
rings of
unknown details of
and Voyager 2
New Guinea
New Horizons, journey to Pluto
Newitt, Malyn
Newman, Barnett
Newton, Isaac
New World:
first discovery
idea of
New York Herald
Nicks,
Oran
Nimrod
Niña
Nixon, Richard M.
North Atlantic, crossing
North Pacific Expedition
North Pole:
exploring parties to
first discovery
U.S. Navy at
see also Arctic
North Star
Northwest Passage
Nunki (star)
Nuttall, Thomas
Oahu Jack (Hawaiian interpreter)
Oberon (Uranus moon)
Oberth, Hermann
oceans:
commercial exploitation of
“common heritage” principle in
doldrums
as dominant habitat
exploration of
garbage in
and Great Voyages
Law of the Sea
manned submersibles
mapping
military priorities in
and national sovereignty
navigation and pilotage on
patterns of
and plate tectonics
and Second Great Age
and Third Great Age
Ocean Sea:
cyber
discovery of
passages across
Office of Management and Budget (OMB)
Oliver, B. M.
O’Neill, Gerard
Oort cloud
Operation Highjump
Operation Paperclip
Operation Windmill
Order of the Dolphin
Orgel, Leslie
O’Sullivan, Timothy
Outer Space Treaty
Owen, Tobias
Paine, Thomas O.
Pardo, Arvid
Paris Academy of Sciences
Park, Mungo
Parkes Radio Telescope
Parks, Robert J.
Parry, J. H.
Paterson, William
Pearl, John
Peary, Robert
Penn, William
Pentagon
Peter the Great, tsar of Russia
Pettengill, G. H.
Philip of Spain
Phoebe (Saturnian moon)
Piccard, Jacques
Pickering, William
and cold-war competition
and Explorer
and Grand Tour
on interplanetary discovery
and JPL
on Moon as objective
Pigafetta, Antonio
Pingrè, Alexandre-Guy
Pinta
Pinzón, Captain
Pioneer
achievements of
and administration
in asteroid belt
design of
funding of
Grand Tour preparations
and gravity assist
and Jupiter
life support ended for
military sponsorship of
as museum exhibit
photos from
plaques of
and Pluto
Pulsed Image Converter System (PICS)
and Saturn
technological limits pushed by
and termination shock
and Uranus
Venus Orbiter
Pizarro, Francisco
Planet A
Planetary Society
Planets (Time-Life)
Planets, The (Silliman Lecture, 1951)
plate tectonics, theory of
Pliny, Natural History
Pluto