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USEFUL WEB SITES (ALL ACCESSED NOVEMBER 1, 2008)
JPL
JPL maintains two sites that are particularly pertinent, one on Voyager itself and one on solar system dynamics (Horizons) by which it is possible to calculate the ephemeris for both spacecraft.
On Voyager: http://voyager.jpl.nasa.gov/index.htmlHorizons: http://ssd.jpl.nasa.gov/?horizons
NASA
NASA has several useful sites on Voyager and on historical research.
For Voyager: http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/voyager/index.html and http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/planetary/voyager.html
For historical publications, archives, and services, see: http://history.nasa.gov/series95.html
THE PLANETARY SOCIETY
See: http://www.planetary.org/explore/topics/space_missions/voyager/
USGS ASTROGEOLOGY RESEARCH PROGRAM
See: http://astrogeology.usgs.gov/Missions/Voyager/
Index
ABE (Autonomous Benthic Explorer)
Achernar (star)
Acta Astronautica
Adrastea (Jovian moon)
Africa, interior exploration of
African Association
Agel, Jerome
Aguilar, Gerónimo de
Air Force, U.S.
Air New Zealand DC-10, crash of
Alaska, discovery of
Albuquerque, Afonso de
Aldebaran (star)
Aldrin, Buzz
Alkaid (star)
Alpha Centauri
Alvin (submersible)
Amalthea (Jovian moon)
American Academy of Arts and Sciences (AAAS)
American Astronomical Society
American Museum of Natural History
Ames Research Center
Amundsen, Roald
Andrews, Roy Chapman
Antarctica:
airplane crash in
Amundsen in
analogies to
>
competition for
expedition timing to
glory sought in
governance of
and IGY
mapping of
names in
one of the last unexplored places
robotic explorations in
Scott in
Shackleton in
Terra Nova expeditions to
tourism in
Antarctic Treaty
Apollo program
costs of
human crew of
Moon landing of
Moon rocks from
as museum exhibit
photo images from
and space shuttle
Apollo-Soyuz
Aquila (constellation)
Arctic
Ariel (Uranus moon)
Armstrong, Neil
Army, U.S.
Army Corps of Topographical Engineers
Ashley, William H.
Asimov, Isaac
asteroid belt
Astrolabe
Atlantis
Atlas/Agena rockets
Atlas missiles (ICBM)
Audubon, John James
Australia:
Aborigines of
Endeavour in
expedition timing for
interior of
Bach, Johann Sebastian
Bacon, Francis
Baffin, William
Bahamas, discovery of
Baines, Thomas
Baker, Robert, Astronomy
Baker, Samuel
Ballard, Robert
Banks, Joseph
Barrows, John
Beagle
Beggs, James
Bellingshausen, Thaddeus
Benton, Thomas Hart
Bering, Vitus Jonassen
Berry, Chuck
Birdseye Expedition
Bohr, Niels
Bomer, Karl
Bonpland, Aimé
Boswell, James
Bougainville, Louis-Antoine de
bow shock, described
Bradbury, Ray
The Martian Chronicles
Bridger, Jim
Britain:
explorers from
promoters in
rivalries with
British Interplanetary Society
Brown, Jerry
Bruce, James
Brûlé, Etienne
Buch, Christian Leopold von
Burgess, Eric
Burke and Wills expedition (Australia)
Burroughs, Edgar Rice
Bush II administration
Byrd, Richard
Byron, John
Cabot, John
Cabral, Pedro Álvars
Callisto (Jovian moon)
Caltech; see also Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Cameron, A. G. W.
Cameron, Verney Lovett
Camões, Luiz Vaz de, Os Lusíads
Campbell, Joseph
Cano, Juan Sebastián del
Canopus (star)
Cape Canaveral, Florida
Carina (constellation)
Carlos IV, king of Spain
Carreira da India
Carson, Rachel, The Sea Around Us
Carstensz, Jan
Carter, Jimmy
Carteret, Philip
Cartier, Jacques
Casani, John
Cassini Division
Cassini mission to Saturn
Catherine the Great
Cavendish, Thomas
Caxton, William
Centaur; see also Titan/ Centaur rockets
Challenger (HMS)
Challenger (space shuttle)
Champlain, Samuel de
Chappe d’Auteroche, Jean-Baptiste
Charon (Pluto’s moon)
Cherry-Garrard, Apsley
China:
missionaries to
satellites of
voyages of discovery
Christian, Eric
Church, Frederic
Clark, William; see also Lewis and Clark
Clarke, Arthur C.
The Challenge of the Sea
The Challenge of the Spaceship
The Exploration of Space
Interplanetary Flight
Rama trilogy
The Snows of Olympus
2001: A Space Odyssey
Clarke, Victor
cold war:
competition in
duration of
military priorities in
and national security
propaganda in
and Sputnik
Collier’s magazine
Collins, Michael, Carrying the Fire
Colorado River
Columbus, Christopher
and first discovery
and First Great Age
gold sought by
inaccuracies of
and land claims
and landfall
legacy of
and natives
and return
self-promotion
ships of
Comet Rendezvous/Asteroid Flyby
“common heritage” principle
Commonwealth Trans-Antarctic Expedition
Conan Doyle, Arthur, Lost World
Congress, U.S.:
and funding
and national parks
“Next Ten Years in Space”
political hazards of
and Sputnik
Conrad, Joseph
Heart of Darkness
Cook, Captain James
and encounters with natives
and Endeavour
orders to
and return
and scientific inquiry
and ships
as spark for future quests
Voyages
Cook, Frederick
Coronado, Francisco Vásquez de
Corps of Discovery; see also Enlightenment
Cortés, Hernando
Cortes, Martin, The Arte of Navigation
Cosmos: A Personal Journey (PBS)
Cosmos capsule
Cousins, Norman
Cousteau, Jacques
Crocco, Gaetano Arturo
Cutting, Joe
Cygnet
da Gama, Vasco
commerce with India sought by
difficulties of
and First Great Age
and Lusíads
ships of
voyage as grand gesture
Dampier, William
Dante Alighieri, Inferno
Darwin, Charles
A Naturalist’s Voyage Round the World
and Beagle
and evolution
and Galapagos
Davis, E. K.
Davis, Esker
Davis, John
Deep Space Network (DSN)
blind pointing
Interagency Array Study
and Pioneer
tasks of
upgrading facilities
and Voyager 2
Defense Department, Advanced Research Projects Agency
Defoe, Daniel, Robinson Crusoe
Delta Scorpii (star)
de Soto, Hernando
Despina (Neptune moon)
Dias, Bartolomeu
Diaz, Bernal
Dione (Saturnian moon)
discovery:
first
and first encounters
first sightings
great ages, see Great Ages of Discovery
international law on
and land claims
moral shock of
and names
and national sovereignty
of new worlds
by people
by robots
souvenirs of
Discovery to Antarctica
Disney Studios
Doppler shift
Drake, Sir Francis
Drake, Frank
Druyan, Ann
; Dutch explorers
Dutton, Clarence
Dyson, Freeman
Eagle orbiter
Earth:
exploration of; see also Great Voyages
fire on
gravitational pull of
as pale blue dot
photos of
in planetary perspective
radiation belts of
scientific scan of
Eden, Rycharde
A Treatyse of the Newe India
Egloffstein, F. W. von
Ehricke, Krafft, Space Flight
Eisenhower, Dwight D.
Emerson, Ralph Waldo
EMPIRE (Early Manned Planetary Roundtrip Expeditions)
Enceladus (Saturnian moon)
Endeavour
Endurance
Enlightenment:
Corps of Discovery in
and evolution
motives for exploration in
and natural history
and natural philosophy
and Second Great Age
and solar system studies
Enterprise of the Indies
Epimetheus (Saturnian moon)
equator, crossing
Erebus
Etzioni, Amitai
The Moon-doggle
Europa (Jovian moon)
Europe:
code of chivalry in
competitions within
and Enlightenment
ethnocentricity of
expansionism
exploration era of
grand tours of
and Great Voyages
imperialism of
volcanoes of
European Space Agency
Evans, Arthur
existentialism
exploration:
analogies to
artistic images of
and autonomy
believers
circumnavigation
competition in
cultural factors in
cycles of
doubters
as elite activity
and first encounters
funding
and the future
and geopolitics
as human impulse
ideal seaman described
inland
interpreters for
knowledge transfer in
launch sequences of
lumpers vs. splitters
and mapping
meanings and purposes of
military vs. civilian aims of
and moving beyond ourselves
mythological aspects of
and names
national creation stories of
and national sovereignty
navigation and pilotage in
points of departure
political barriers to
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