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Voyager - Exploration, Space, And The Third Great Age Of Discovery

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by Stephen J. Pyne


  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 Highjumpr />
  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

  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

 

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