Why We Explore - Sven's Space Place

Donald F. Robertson sent me this note, which set me off looking to see if Sidiqqi's books might be on-line.
- LRK -

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Hey, Larry, glad to hear your retirement is proving so productive!

The Sidiqqi books are fantastic. I read them back when they were published as a single volume by the NASA history office. The most innovative -- not to say ironic -- of his conclusions is that the Soviets lost, not because of "centralized planning," but because of the extreme bulcanized disorganization of their effort.

I also highly recommend David Harland's "Exploring the Moon: the Apollo expeditions." By showing what was done, even with first-generation equipment and techniques, this book demonstrates why those who say that robots can do everything we need to do in space are so wrong. This book shows why we should send astronauts everywhere we can, and reserve robots for where we have no better choice.

-- Donald
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When you send Google off looking for an item you tend to find where the item is referenced as well as maybe the item itself.

What happens then is that you are presented with a wealth of information that can lead you down many paths.

Prepare for information overload. :-)

Looking, looking, looking for:
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Siddiqi, Asif, Challenge to Apollo: The Soviet Union and the Space Race,
1945-1974 (NASA SP-2000-4408, 2000).
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Since I have the two paperbacks I will not spend too much time searching for an on-line version but I will list a few interesting links below that turned up that may compete for my reading time. Your distraction may vary. :-)

Hope you find some reasons for why we explore and some ideas for how you might look up.

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http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/exploration/whyweexplore/index.html
Why We Explore

http://www.svengrahn.pp.se/
Sven's Space Place
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Thanks for continuing to look up with me.
Do you see anyone else looking up?
Maybe they are just a Space Tourist.
What is in their view finder?
Is that upturned umbrella really an antenna?
What are they tracking?
:-)

Larry Kellogg

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THE SOVIET SPACE RACE WITH APOLLO
By ASIF A. SIDDIQI
http://www.amazon.com/Soviet-Space-Race-Apollo/dp/0813026288
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SPUTNIK AND THE SOVIET SPACE CHALLENGE
By ASIF A. SIDDIQI
http://www.amazon.com/Sputnik-Soviet-Space-Challenge-Siddiqi/dp/081302627X

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APOLLO The Definitive Sourcebook
By RICHARD W. ORLOFF and DAVID M. HARLAND http://www.amazon.com/Apollo-Definitive-Sourcebook-Springer-Exploration/dp/0387300430
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Exploring the Moon: The Apollo Expeditions (Springer Praxis Books / Space
Exploration) (Paperback)
By DAVID M. HARLAND
http://www.amazon.com/Exploring-Moon-Expeditions-Springer-Exploration/dp/1852330996/

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NOTE: If you look at some of these essays you will find a number of references at their ends. Many of these also have live links that will provide you with more information.
- LRK -
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http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/exploration/whyweexplore/index.html
OVERVIEW

From the time of our birth, humans have felt a primordial urge to explore -- to blaze new trails, map new lands, and answer profound questions about ourselves and our universe.

Now, as America charts a new course into the cosmos, NASA's History Office offers a broad perspective in a series of essays titled "Why We Explore."
Drawing parallels to the Age of Discovery in the 15th and 16th centuries, NASA Chief Historian Steven J. Dick writes about our current Age of Space, "a continuous story of voyages further and further from the home planet."


WHY WE EXPLORE

10.16.06 - Voyages to the Beginning of Time The recent award of the Nobel Prize in Physics to NASA astrophysicist John Mather and University of California Berkeley astrophysicist George Smoot reminds us that NASA not only undertakes voyages in space, but also in time.
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http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/exploration/whyweexplore/Why_We_24.html

Pluto, center and it's previously known moon Charon
09.05.06 - Pluto, Classification and Exploration The universe is what it is, not what we want it to be, and science must always be open to correcting its mistakes.
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http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/exploration/whyweexplore/Why_We_23.html

This global view of the surface of Venus is centered at 0 degrees east longitude.
08.12.06 - Voyages to the Planets: Venus Less than a century ago, the planet Venus was most often referred to as "Earth's sister planet."
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http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/exploration/whyweexplore/Why_We_22.html

Project Mercury Astronauts
06.29.06 - The Voyagers
Exploration doesn't happen by sitting still, physically or intellectually.
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http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/exploration/whyweexplore/Why_We_21.html

Astronaut Edwin E.
05.30.06 - The Voyages of Apollo
No single essay can do justice to the events that took place between 1968 and 1972, four years that, as time passes, seem all the more remarkable for human history.
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http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/exploration/whyweexplore/Why_We_20.html
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ARCHIVE
http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/exploration/whyweexplore/Why_We_Collection_archive_1.html

http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/exploration/whyweexplore/Why_We_Collection_archive_2.html

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http://www.svengrahn.pp.se/
Sven's Space Place

I have an irresistible urge to find out what went on behind the scenes during the Space Race of the Cold War. What I saw as a kid and a young man was just the the media picture, not the true story. To try to tell the real story is the purpose of this site. I also wish to share personal memories of great space events.
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Space History Notes

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Space Radio Notes

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Space Tracking Notes

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Sounds From Space

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Links

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What's New

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WHAT THE MIND CAN CONCEIVE, AND BELIEVE, IT WILL ACHIEVE - LRK

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