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

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by Stephen J. Pyne


  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

  ongoing

  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

 

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