{"product_id":"infinity-beckoned-9780803234468","title":"Infinity Beckoned","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eExplores a critical period of space history when humans dared an expansive leap into the inner solar system. With an irreverent and engaging style, Jay Gallentine conveys the trials and triumphs of the people on the ground who conceived and engineered the missions that put robotic spacecraft on the heavenly bodies nearest our own.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Based on numerous interviews, Gallentine delivers a rich variety of stories involving the men and women, American and Russian, responsible for such groundbreaking endeavors as the Mars Viking missions of the 1970s and the Soviet Venera flights to Venus in the 1980s. . . . Their legacy is our better understanding of our own planet and our place in the cosmos.\"—\u003ci\u003eLunar and Planetary Information Bulletin\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“In this lively and memorable journey, Jay Gallentine captures the amazing people behind history’s robotic explorers, who journeyed where no machines had gone before.”—Andrew Chaikin, author of \u003ci\u003eA Man on the Moon\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eA Passion for Mars\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Jay Gallentine has written a truly engaging account of lunar and planetary exploration in the halcyon days of the 1970s and 1980s, when scientists and engineers were boldly pushing into the unknown. . . . [He brings] to life the struggles, triumphs, and disappointments of the first great era of deep space exploration. Highly recommended.”—Asif Siddiqi, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Red Rockets’ Glare: Spaceflight and the Soviet Imagination, 1857–1957\u003c\/i\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e“\u003ci\u003eInfinity Beckoned \u003c\/i\u003eis a stirring account of [the robotic race to the moon, Venus, and Mars] and its bobs and weaves over more than thirty years as both nations expanded knowledge of the solar system, expended resources for science, and competed for stature on the world stage.”—Roger Launius, associate director for collections and curatorial affairs at the National Air and Space Museum, Smithsonian Institution \u003cbr\u003e“With \u003ci\u003eInfinity Beckoned\u003c\/i\u003e you’ll read a big piece of history you never even knew was there.”—Jeffrey Kluger, coauthor of \u003ci\u003eApollo 13\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eList of Illustrations\u003cbr\u003eForeword\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgments\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction\u003cbr\u003e1. Beach Brainstorm\u003cbr\u003e2. What If…\u003cbr\u003e3. Dead at Birth\u003cbr\u003e4. Failure to Communicate\u003cbr\u003e5. Halt the Work, Destroy All Materials\u003cbr\u003e6. There and Back Again\u003cbr\u003e7. Sitting Cosmonauts\u003cbr\u003e8. Cauldron of Contradictions\u003cbr\u003e9. Buy-In\u003cbr\u003e10. \"Prepared Area\"\u003cbr\u003e11. Laying Eggs (Somehow)\u003cbr\u003e12. How Low Can You Go?\u003cbr\u003e13. Three Mistakes\u003cbr\u003e14. Devil from Redondo\u003cbr\u003e15. The Boy to Be Beaten\u003cbr\u003e16. How to Buy a Computer That Does Not Exist\u003cbr\u003e17. Downsurfing\u003cbr\u003e18. Gulliver’s Travels\u003cbr\u003e19. Too Much Too Soon\u003cbr\u003e20. Scientific Charity\u003cbr\u003e21. Last Man Home\u003cbr\u003e22. Bonneville, Notch Rock, Double-Squirt, Sudden Death\u003cbr\u003e23. Post-Mortem\u003cbr\u003e24. Sons of a Bitch\u003cbr\u003e25. The Sum of All Nations\u003cbr\u003e26. Hang Time\u003cbr\u003e27. The Rules of Resigning\u003cbr\u003e28. Wonders Never Cease\u003cbr\u003eSources\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIndex\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"University of Nebraska Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49405250077015,"sku":"9780803234468","price":27.54,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780803234468.jpg?v=1730489281","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/infinity-beckoned-9780803234468","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}