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... photographic devices and radar. Here we review the Soviet project to map the moon, Mars and Venus and the key role played in the project by Yuri Lipsky and the Sternberg Astronomical Institute. This paper reviews the methods used, the mapping outcomes of the missions and the Soviet photographic collection; and ...

... the Canadian Aeronautical Institute. The announcement was made jointly by Dr J.J. Green, Vice President of CAI and Dr Phil Lapp at the "Symposium - Interplanetary Explorations" at the Institute of Aerophysics University of Toronto on the night of October 26th. The merged organisation was to be called the Canadian Aeronautics and Space Institute (CASI) after a ballot ...

... great designers who led its leading design bureaus became known, such as Korolev, Chelomei, Mishin and Glushko. The least well known was Mikhail Klavdeivich Tikhonravov (1900- 74) partly because he sought ... he can also be credited behind many of the ideas that drove the early Soviet lunar and interplanetary programmes. This reappraisal suggests that he played a decisive role here as well. '''To ...

... spaceflight. Significant benefits are identified in the fields of interstellar medium studies, stellar astrophysics, planetary science and astrobiology. In the latter three areas the benefits would be considerably enhanced if the interstellar ... to rest relative to the target system. Although this will greatly complicate the mission architecture, and extend the overall travel time, the scientific benefits are such that this option should be ...

... are a major element in the international competition between the Soviet system and our own . . . ‘ C ivilian’ projects such as lunar and planetary exploration are, in this sense, part of the battle along ... issues conducted under the auspices of the Institute of Air and Space Law at McGill University between 2014 and 2017. (See, Ram S. Jakhu and Joseph N. Pelton, ''Global Space Governance: An ...

... of flight along a parabolic trajectory for lunar and planetary flights is shown to be very convenient, especially when using canonical units. Given the true anomaly and the periapsis distance, the time of flight ... Equation. The inverse problem, that of finding the true anomaly given the time of flight and the periapsis distance, particularly for short times of flight presents significant difficulties. These difficulties involve ...

... the field of astronautics, as to where space flight is leading mankind, and what new discoveries will be made as lunar and planetary flight become realities. Attention is given to current projects. Chapters deal ... within the Milky Way galaxy. Extracted from the 1962 Publication ''Annotated Bibliography of Space Science and Technology with an Astronomical Supplement - A History of Astronautical Book Literature 1931 - 1961.'' by Frederick ...

... and planetary surface facilities, 8) perform the majority of system error recoveries using in situ capabilities, 9) manage in-space and planetary surface facilities, and ... and accounting for costs and repercussions in areas such as work force, sustainability of mission, and infrastructure This singular focus brought great success, yet produced long-term institutional processes and ...

... . Lada, and N. D. Kylafis (1999). The Origin of Stars and Planetary Systems. Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht/Boston/London. Benz, R. Kallenbach, and G. Lugmair, Eds. ( ... a Geologist’s History of Lunar Exploration, Tucson, AZ: University of Arizona Press. Spudis, P. D. (1996) The Once and Future Moon. Washington: Smithsonian Institution Press. ...

... and expensive to build, and not the safest of vehicles. Most satellites have simple and generally reliable chemical rocket thrusters to keep them in position, termed “station keeping”. Recently spacecraft and planetary ... to build space shuttles, orbiting space stations, large, inhabited lunar bases and elaborate human Mars missions. And while these will all eventually become reality, von Braun ...

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