Beschreibung:
Explorer was the original American space program and Explorer 1 its first satellite, launched in 1958. Sixty years later, it is the longest continuously running space program in the world, demonstrating to the world how we can explore the cosmos with small spacecraft. Almost a hundred Explorers have already been launched.
Acknowledgements.- Dedication.- About the Author.- List of Tables.- Author's Introduction.- Chapter 1: Foundations.- Chapter 2: Early Explorers.- Chapter 3: Explorer and the crisis in space science.- Chapter 4: Faster, better, cheaper?.- Chapter 5: Future missions and conclusions.- Bibliographical note.- Appendix 1: List of Explorer missions.- Index.