Voyager: Exploration, Space, and the Third Great Age of Discovery
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distance to
mapping of
New Horizons journey to
and Pioneer
Plymouth Plantation
Poivre, Pierre
Polaris
Ponce de León, Juan
Pope, Alexander, The Rape of the Lock
Portugal:
explorers from
and Lusíads
overseas empire of
paradigm of
and slave trade
Spain vs.
treaties with
volta do mar largo of
Pound, Ezra
Powell, John Wesley
pragmatism
President’s Science Advisory Committee
Preuss, Charles
Project VEGA
Promethean fire
Proteus (Neptune moon)
Provost, Etienne
Proxima Centauri
Przhevalsky, Nikolai
Ptolemy, Geographia
Puck (Uranus moon)
Purchas, Samuel, Purchas His Pilgrimage
Raleigh, Walter
Ranger
Rattlesnake
Reagan administration, space program threatened by
Rechtin, Eberhard
Redstone rocket
Reformation
Regulus
relativity, test of general theory of
Renaissance:
armadas of
and grand gesture
Great Voyages of
Rhea (Saturnian moon)
Rhodes, Cecil
robots:
anthropomorphizing
exploration via
human crews vs.
in IGY
and modernism
museum exhibits of
protection for
purposes of
self-analysis and -adjustment of
spacecraft staffed by
Rocket and Satellite Research Panel
rockets:
bombs vs.
evolution of
German V-2
Romanticism
Rosetta Stone
Ross, James
Ross 248 (star)
Rothko, Mark
Royal Geographical Society
Royal Society of London
Russell, Henry Norris
Russia, explorers from
Russian American Company
Ryan, Cornelius
Sacajawea
Sagan, Carl
books by
career of
and Contact
and Cosmos
on extraterrestrial intelligence
and golden records
and photo images
as public voice of Voyager
Sagan, Linda Salzman
San Antonio
Santa Anna
Santa Maria
Saturn:
bow shock at
Cassini mission to
distance to
Grand Tour planning for
gravity assist from
and Great Conjunction
“ice planets” of
magnetosphere of
moons of
naming features of
photos of
Pioneer’s encounter with
rings of
rotation period for
Saturnian system
surveys of
Voyagers’ travels to
Saturn rockets
Schmitt, Harrison
Schurmeier, Harris “Bud”
Science
science:
career in space science
competition in
expanding the frontiers of
and national security
role in space program
science fiction
Science Steering Group
Scientific American
Scott, Robert
Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence
Second Great Age:
art from
circumnavigation in
and Corps of Discovery
critics of
cultural factors in
distinctive traits of
echoes of
and Enlightenment
freelancers in
grand gesture of
inland passages
and islands
missionaries in
motives in
names assigned in
and natural history
and ocean discoveries
promotional media of
and science
and transit of Venus
vessels designed for
and volcanoes
Second Life (online game)
Shackleton, Ernest
Shakespeare, William:
A Midsummer Night’s Dream
The Tempest
Shepard, Alan
Shklovskii. S.
Sinope (Jovian moon)
Sirius
Skate
Skylab
Smith, Bradford
Soderblom, Larry
solar system:
border of stars and
bow shock in
Newton’s model of
preconceived notions of
studies of
termination shock in
travel defined by gravity
Voyagers’ images of
Southern Cross
South Pole, see Antarctica
Soviet Union:
and Antarctica
and cold war, see cold war
Moon claimed by
spacecraft of
space program under military control
and Sputnik
Soyuz
space:
analogies of
colonization of
communication network in
competition for
emptiness of
exploration of
hard geography
military vs. civilian control of
objects in
orbiting nuclear weapons in
Outer Space Treaty
public interest in
as science lab
search for intelligence in
soft geography
void of
weightlessness in
spacecraft:
anthropomorphizing
as artificial habitat
autonomous
custom-built
data amassed by
and direct observation
golden age of
gravity assist for
launch of
in museums
paired
self-analysis and -repair
slingshot effect of
as a small planetary body
TOPS
trajectories of
see also Voyager spacecraft
Spacecraft Anomaly Team (SCAT)
Space Science Board
space shuttle
and Apollo
and budgetary concerns
Challenger explosion
launch schedule of
NASA support of
space station, near-Earth
Space Technology Laboratories
space telescope
Spain:
and Columbus
commercial interests of
conquistadors of
Portugal vs.
treaties with
Spanish Armada
Spice Isles
Sputnik I:
and cold-war competition
subsequent projects of
Third Great Age opened by
Stanley, Henry
and Livingstone
and native culture
and return
and self-promotion
and success
Stanley, Owen
Stansbury, Howard
Stardust probe
Star Trek
Star Wars
Steller, Georg
Stewart,
Homer Joe
Stockman, David
Stone, Edward
Sturms, Francis
Sullivan, Walter
Sun:
gravitational pull of
magnetosphere of
navigation via
and occultation with Uranus
and three-body problem
and uncontrollable variables
supersonic transport (SST)
Surveyor
Sverdrup, Otto
Swift, Jonathan
Gulliver’s Travels
Symmes, John Cleves
Tasman, Abel
Taurus (constellation)
technology:
emergence of
evolving
freelancers in
hardware vs. software
inventions following ideas
limits of
photography
potential of
Tenerife
termination shock
Terra Nova (Scott expedition)
Terra Nova expedition (Cherry-Garrard)
Terrile, Richard
Terror
Tethys (Saturnian moon)
Third Great Age of Discovery:
achievements of
analogies for
artistic images of
costs of
critics of
cultural factors in
first discovery in
grand gesture of
IGY as catalyst of
international laws and treaties
and islands
and modernism
motives for
names assigned in
ocean exploration
promotional media of
robots in, see robots
and science fiction
Sea of Darkness (interstellar space)
spacecraft launched in; see also spacecraft
Sputnik as opener of
triangulating
and volcanoes
winding down
Thoreau, Henry David
Tiros
Titan
atmosphere of
free-burning fire on
Huygens mission to
images of
as second largest moon
surveys of
Voyagers’ travel toward
Titan/Centaur rockets
for surveillance satellites
in Voyager liftoffs
Titania (Uranus moon)
Titan missiles (ICBM)
Tonight Show, The
TOPS (Thermoelectric Outer Planet Spacecraft)
Torres, Luis de
Toulmin, Stephen
Triana, Rodrigo de
Trieste (bathyscaphe)
Triton (Neptune’s moon)
Truly, Richard
Truman, Harry S.
Tsiolkovsky, Konstantin
Tupaia (Tahitian)
2001: A Space Odyssey (film)
Ulysses mission to Sun
Umbriel (Uranus moon)
United Nations (UN), and ocean discoveries
United States:
and cold war, see cold war
expansionism of
great surveys of
rivalries within space community
Uranus:
assessment conference on
data collected at
distance to
Grand Tour planning for
gravitational pull of
magnetosphere of
moons of
and occultation
photos of
as possible goal
and Voyager 2
Urey, Harold
Urville, Dumont d’
U.S. Board on Geographic Names
U.S. Exploring Expedition
U.S. Geological Survey
USSR, see Soviet Union
Valhalla (Jovian crater)
Van Allen, James:
career of
on crewed vs. robotic missions
and Explorer
on space as science lab
Van Allen radiation belts
Vancouver, George
Vanguard
Vargas Machuca
Venera I
Venus
gravity assist from
and Great Conjunction
launch window for
Magellan mission to
and Mariner
Pioneer Orbiter
as possible goal
transits of
Verne, Jules
Verrazano, Giovanni da
Vespucci, Amerigo
Victoria
Vidal, Alexander
Vietnam War
Viking
evolution of
on Mars
as museum exhibit
technical successes of
Vincennes
Virgil
virtual reality
volcanoes
Voltaire
von Braun, Wernher:
on colonization of space
death of
and Explorer
The Mars Project
and mission control
and rockets
Vonnegut, Kurt, The Sirens of Titan
Voyager 1:
aging
construction of
on to the heliosphere
and Jupiter
liftoff
midcourse corrections
most distant human-made object in space
photos from
and Saturn
technical problems of
and termination shock
testing of
velocity of
Voyager 2:
aging
communication breakdown with JPL
communication facility of
construction of
cruise to infinity
and Deep Space Network
and Jupiter
liftoff
and Neptune
photos from
post-encounter phase
public image of
and Saturn
technical problems of
and termination shock
testing of
and Uranus
velocity of
Voyager Family Portrait
Voyager Interstellar Mission (VIM)
Voyager program:
as corporate enterprise
costs of
duration of
escape velocities of
evolution of
and the future
as grand gesture
Grand Tour completed by
Interstellar Mission
as last hurrah
launch windows for
and Mars
motives of
name of
opposition to
political route of
project managers
Project Plan for
public interest in
resurrected as Viking
shift in reference frames
special destiny of
technology as dominant in
Viking morphed into
wide geographic sweep of
Voyager Science Steering Group
Voyager spacecraft:
achievements of
anthropomorphizing
asteroid belt encounter
Attitude and Articulation Control Subsystem (AACS)
autonomy of
bypassing Mars
ceaseless corrections of
Computer Command Subsystem (CCS)
construction of
cruising
dehumanized
exact route of
Flight Data Subsystem (FDS)
golden records of
instruments of
interconnectedness of
launch of
life expectancy of
as museum exhibit
mutiny possible in
navigation for
ong
oing
phases of planetary encounters
problems with
redundancy in
separation of
sequence load uplinked to
size of
and termination shock
testing of
three-body problem of
see also spacecraft; Voyager 1; Voyager 2
Voyager Uranus/Interstellar Mission (VUIM)
Waldheim, Kurt
Wallace, Alfred
Wallace, William
Wallis, Samuel
Walsh, Don
Watt, James
Wells, H. G.
Western Explorer
Whipple, Fred Lawrence
Wild 2 (comet)
Wilkes, Charles
Wilkes Expedition
Wilson, E. O.
Wilson, J. Tuzo
Wolfe, Tom:
“Me Generation”
The Right Stuff
Woude, Jurrie van der
Wyeth, Nathaniel
Yellowstone National Park
Yermak, Timofeyevich
Zurara, Gomes Eannes de
Table of Contents
Title Page
Copyright Page
Dedication
part 1 - THE BEGINNING OF BEYOND: JOURNEY OF AN IDEA
part 2 - BEYOND THE SUNSET: JOURNEY ACROSS THE SOLAR SYSTEM
Beyond Earth
Beyond the Inner Planets
part 3 - BEYOND THE UTMOST BOND: JOURNEY TO THE STARS
Beyond Bow Shock
Beyond Narrative
Beyond Tomorrow
Afterword
Appendix
Notes
Sources
Index