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Solar System exploration:A Quick Tour of the Solar System
Spacefaring nations:
Exploring the Sun and its surrounding family
The Sun
Sunspots and other solar mysteries
Exploring the Moon and Planets
Successful and unsuccessful lunar and planetary probes
Human Landings on the Moon
Their footprints are still there
Mars
No other world has tickled the human fancy more
Jupiter
The fifth planet from the Sun is the largest in the Solar System
Saturn
Controlling a giant planetary system
Pluto
How it differs from the other major planets
Comets
Dirty snowballs and icy mudballs with dust from the early Solar System
The Farthest Things Man Has Flung:Voyagers
Going strong after two decades
Pioneers
Way out there after 25 yearsThe first spacefaring nations
Deep space astronomy:
First with rocket power to launch their own satellites
Spacefaring from the Eastern Hemisphere:China
2300 years from gunpowder in bamboo tubes to taikonauts
Japan
From pencil rockets in the '50s to the fourth nation in spaceMagnetars
Satellites:
A magnetar is a weird duck, indeed
The Electromagnetic Spectrum and Spectrometers
Exotic energies from radio waves to gamma raysTracking Threatened Birds and Animals
Rocketry and space launchings:
Understanding and protecting the endangered and threatened
The Extraordinary History of Hamsats
Private groups of radio amateurs orbiting communications satellitesGlobal Spaceports
Space stations:
Dotting the globe as dictated by political realities, technical requirments
Converting Military ICBMs to Peaceful Launchers
Beating swords into plowsharesConstructing the International Station in Space
Technology:
How does a million pounds with six laboratories grow 240 miles up?
Pioneering Americans Aboard Mir Space Station
Seven American astronauts who lived on that Russian territoryThe Electromagnetic Spectrum and Spectrometers
History of space exploration:
Exotic energies from radio waves to gamma rays
Ubar: Atlantis of the Sands
Satellite expedition makes startling find on the fringe of the Arabian Desert
How To Hear Jupiter on the Radio
Powerful natural waves produce exotic sounds on Earth
Coordinated Universal Time
UTC is the time at Earth's zero meridianThe Past Millennium
Communications:
Whence space science and astronomy
Human Firsts in Space
Four decades of been there, done that
Russian Dogs Lost in Space
President Eisenhower: "That does not raise my apprehension, not one iota."
Space Factoids
Choice morsels recovered and misplaced stories recalled
The 20th Century's Top Space News Stories
Historians,journalists find space and astronomy among top 100 events
The Top 20th Century Scientists
Three who took us beyond the past in space, time, logic, mathematicsThe Extraordinary History of Hamsats
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