Deep Space Network (DSN)
blind pointing
Interagency Array Study
and Pioneer
tasks of
upgrading facilities
and Voyager 2
Defense Department, Advanced Research Projects Agency
Defoe, Daniel, Robinson Crusoe
Delta Scorpii (star)
de Soto, Hernando
Despina (Neptune moon)
Dias, Bartolomeu
Diaz, Bernal
Dione (Saturnian moon)
discovery:
first
and first encounters
first sightings
great ages, see Great Ages of Discovery
international law on
and land claims
moral shock of
and names
and national sovereignty
of new worlds
by people
by robots
souvenirs of
Discovery to Antarctica
Disney Studios
Doppler shift
Drake, Sir Francis
Drake, Frank
Druyan, Ann
Dutch explorers
Dutton, Clarence
Dyson, Freeman
Eagle orbiter
Earth:
exploration of; see also Great Voyages
fire on
gravitational pull of
as pale blue dot
photos of
in planetary perspective
radiation belts of
scientific scan of
Eden, Rycharde
A Treatyse of the Newe India
Egloffstein, F. W. von
Ehricke, Krafft, Space Flight
Eisenhower, Dwight D.
Emerson, Ralph Waldo
EMPIRE (Early Manned Planetary Roundtrip Expeditions)
Enceladus (Saturnian moon)
Endeavour
Endurance
Enlightenment:
Corps of Discovery in
and evolution
motives for exploration in
and natural history
and natural philosophy
and Second Great Age
and solar system studies
Enterprise of the Indies
Epimetheus (Saturnian moon)
equator, crossing
Erebus
Etzioni, Amitai
The Moon-doggle
Europa (Jovian moon)
Europe:
code of chivalry in
competitions within
and Enlightenment
ethnocentricity of
expansionism
exploration era of
grand tours of
and Great Voyages
imperialism of
volcanoes of
European Space Agency
Evans, Arthur
existentialism
exploration:
analogies to
artistic images of
and autonomy
believers
circumnavigation
competition in
cultural factors in
cycles of
doubters
as elite activity
and first encounters
funding
and the future
and geopolitics
as human impulse
ideal seaman described
inland
interpreters for
knowledge transfer in
launch sequences of
lumpers vs. splitters
and mapping
meanings and purposes of
military vs. civilian aims of
and moving beyond ourselves
mythological aspects of
and names
national creation stories of
and national sovereignty
navigation and pilotage in
points of departure
political barriers to
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
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