Exploring the Solar System

PART I: MANAGING PLANETARY SCIENCE Homer Newell and the Origins of Planetary Science in the United States; J.D.Ruley The Survival Crisis of the U.S. Solar System Exploration Program; J.M.Logsdon Faster, Better, Cheaper: A Sociotechnical Perspective on Programmatic Choice, Success, and Failure in NASA's Solar System Exploration Program; A.P.Kaminski PART II: DEVELOPING NEW APPROACHES TO PLANETARY EXPLORATION Redefining Celestial Mechanics in the Space Age: Astronomy, Astrodynamics, Deep-Space Navigation, and the Pursuit of Accuracy; A.J.Butrica Big Science in Space: Viking, Cassini, and the Hubble Space Telescope; W.H.Lambright Visual Imagery in Solar System Exploration; P.J.Westwick Returning Scientific Data to Earth: The Parallel but Unequal Careers of Genesis and Stardust and the Problem of Sample Return to Earth; R.D.Launius PART III: EXPLORING THE TERRESTRIAL PLANETS Planetary Science and the 'Discovery' of Global Warming; E.M.Conway Exploring Planet Earth: The Development of Satellite Remote Sensing for Earth Science; A.K.Johnston Venus-Earth-Mars: Comparative Climatology and the Search for Life in the Solar System; R.D.Launius Missions to Mars: Reimagining the Red Planet in the Age of Spaceflight; R.Markley PART IV: UNVEILING THE OUTER SOLAR SYSTEM Parachuting onto Another World: The EuropeAn Space Agency's Huygens Mission to Titan; A.Russo Pluto: The Problem Planet and its Scientists; D.A.DeVorkin Transcendence and Meaning in Solar System Exploration; W.E.Burrows