Russian planetary exploration : history, development, legacy, prospects
"This book assesses the scientific haul of data from the Venus and Mars missions and examines the engineering techniques and the science packages used, as well as the difficulties which ruined several missions. The book is illustrated with photographs taken by Soviet Venus and Mars probes, and with material from the program that has only come to light in recent years, such as pictures of the spacecraft, diagrams of the flight paths and landing techniques and maps of the landing sites."--Jacket
eBook, English, ©2007
Springer ; in association with Praxis Pub., Berlin, New York, ©2007
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1 online resource (xxi, 351 pages) : illustrations, map, portraits
9780387496641, 9780387463438, 0387496645, 0387463437
186566322
Aelita
First plans
The first Mars, Venus probes
OKB Lavochkin
First landfall on Venus, Mars
The high summer of Soviet planetary exploration, 1975-1986
Phobos, crisis and decline
Returning to the planets?
The legacy
English