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Infinity Beckoned
- Adventuring Through the Inner Solar System, 1969-1989
- Narrated by: Michael Burnette
- Length: 22 hrs and 40 mins
- Categories: Computers & Technology, History & Culture
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Infinity Beckoned illuminates a critical period of space history when humans dared an expansive leap into the inner solar system. Jay Gallentine conveys the trials and triumphs of the people on the ground who conceived and engineered the missions that put robotic spacecraft on the heavenly bodies nearest our own. Based on numerous interviews, Gallentine delivers a rich variety of stories involving the men and women, American and Russian, responsible for such groundbreaking endeavors as the Mars Viking missions of the 1970s and the Soviet Venera flights to Venus in the 1980s. From the dreamers responsible for the Venus landing who discovered that dropping down through heavy clouds of sulfuric acid and 900-degree heat was best accomplished by surfing to the five-man teams puppeteering the Soviet moon rovers from a top-secret, off-the-map town without a name, the people who come to life in this book persevered in often trying, thankless circumstances. Their legacy is our better understanding of our own planet and our place in the cosmos.
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- Marcel-Jan
- 22-02-2018
Stories about unmanned spaceflight never heared
There are some interesting stories about missions to the moon, Venus, Mars and Haley's comet that I had never heared. It's refreshing to hear what happened to the Soviet missions as well. The book does have some weird buckaroo-type of American slang, but if you can look beyond that, it's a worthwhile listen.
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