Robot Spacecraft

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Robot Spacecraft



Facts On File, Inc. | ISBN: 0-8160-5773-7 | English | PDF | Pages: 321 | Size: 5.86 MB

Introduction
Modern space robots are sophisticated machines that have visited all the major worlds of the solar system, including (soon) tiny Pluto. Robot Spacecraft examines the evolution of these fascinating, far-traveling spacecraft—from the relatively unsophisticated planetary probes flown at the dawn of the Space Age to the incredibly powerful exploring machines that now allow scientists to conduct detailed, firsthand investigations of alien worlds within this solar system. Emerging out of the space race of the cold war, modern robot spacecraft have dramatically changed what we know about the solar system. In this century, an armada of ever more sophisticated machine explorers will continue this legacy of exploration as they travel to the farthest reaches of the solar system and beyond. Robot spacecraft have formed a special intellectual partnership with their human creators by allowing us to explore more “new worlds” in one human lifetime than in the entire history of the human race. This unprecedented wave of
discovery and the continued acquisition of vast quantities of new scientific knowledge—perhaps even the first definitive evidence of whether alien life exists—will transform how human beings view themselves and their role in the universe. Robot Spacecraft describes the historic events, scientific principles, and technical breakthroughs that now allow complex exploring machines to orbit around, or even land upon, mysterious worlds in our solar system. The book’s special collection of illustrations presents historic, contemporary, and future robot spacecraft—allowing readers to appreciate the tremendous aerospace engineering progress that has occurred since the dawn of the space age. A generous number of sidebars are strategically positioned throughout the book to provide expanded discussions of fundamental scientific concepts and robot-spacecraft engineering techniques. There are also capsule biographies of several space exploration visionaries and scientists, to allow the reader to appreciate the human
dimension in the development and operation of robot spacecraft....................



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