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EDITORIAL INFORMATION
The book contains the engaging, highly readable
edited proceedings of a symposium that the NASA Administrator sponsored in
September 2004 featuring luminaries in exploration from a variety of
fields such as mountain climbing, polar expeditions, cave diving, and
underwater robotics. This topic of balancing the risks and rewards of
exploration, especially in the context of space, continues to be very
relevant for historians, policymakers, and all those who follow NASA's
activities.
(Extracted from the press release).
GENERAL TABLE OF CONTENTS
- -Contents.
-Acknowledgments -Steve J. Dick, Keith L. Cowing.
- -Invitation Letter - Sean O'Keefe.
- -Introduction - Scott Hubbard.
- -The Vision for Exploration - Sean O'Keefe.
- -Race to the Moon - James Lovell.
- -Bold Endeavors: Lessons from Polar and Space
Exploration - Jack Stuster.
- -Discussion
- -SESSION ONE - EARTH
-Hunting Microbial Communities in Dry Antarctic Valley Lakes - Dale
Andersen.
- -High-Altitude Mountaineering - Ed Viesturs.
- -Exploring the Deep Underground - Penelope J.
Boston.
-Exploring the World's Highest Lakes - Nathalie Cabrol.
- -Deep/Underwater Cave Environments - William C.
Stone.
- -A Writer/Climber Perspective - David Roberts.
- -Discussion.
- -SESSION TWO - SEA
- -Diving Shipwrecks - John Chatterton.
- -Deep Ocean Exploration - Sylvia Earle.
- -Ocean Futures - Jean-Michel Cousteau.
- -Exploration and the Risk-Reward Equation - Michael
L. Gernhardt.
- -Titanic and Other Reflections - James Cameron.
- -Over the Edge of the World - Laurence Bergreen.
- -Discussion.
- -SESSION THREE - THE STARS
- -Introduction - John Grunsfeld.
- -Risk and Reward in Apollo - Harrison Schmitt.
- -Mir Adventures - Shannon Lucid.
- -Mars Exploration - James B. Garvin.
- -Mars Exploration Rovers - Steve Squyres.
- -COBE and the James Webb Space Telescope - John
Mather.
- -From the Earth to the Moon - Graham Yost.
- -Discussion.
- -SESSION FOUR - WHY WE EXPLORE
- -Why We Explore - John Grunsfeld.
- -Discussion.
- -APPENDIX - IN CLOSING
- -Closing Remarks - Scott Hubbard.
- -Remarks - Thomas T. K. Mattingly.
- -Remarks - Michael Foale.
- -About the Editors.
- -Index.
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