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 ofSatellite 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

WILLIAM E. BURROWS New York University, USAANDREW J. BUTRICA Independent ScholarERIK M. CONWAY Jet Propulsion LaboratoryDAVID A. DEVORKIN Smithsonian Institution, USAANDREW K. JOHNSTON Smithsonian Institution, USAAMY PAIGE KAMINSKI NASA Headquarters, USAW. HENRY LAMBWRIGHT Syracuse University, USAJOHN M. LOGSDON George Washington University, USAROBERT MARKLEY University of Illinois, USAJOHN D. RULEY Indepdent ScholarARTURO RUSSO University of Palermo, ItalyPETER J. WESTWICK The Huntington Library, USA