Books by Rod Pyle

== Interplanetary Robots ===

Mostly about probes from JPL, with a focus on the Curiosity lander, and press coverage from JPL.

p32 Early plans, Air Force detonate a-bomb above Moon.
p48 CIA examines Luna 3 probe duplicate overnight during tur of the US
p51-56 Ranger, p56-59 1966-7 Lunar orbiters 1-5, 99% map of moon, 1500 tape reels at National Archives enhanced digital images
p61-63 Lunar Flashlight look for water
p65-77 1965 July 15 - Mariner 4 Mars flyby
p83-88 Surveyor 6 on Moon
p89-92 1970 Lunokhod 1 and 1973 Lunokhod 2
p105-118 mismanaged Voyager Mars, grew huge, cancelled
p119-142 Viking
p143-145 MOXIE Mars Oxygen ISRU Experiment on 2020 rover, electrolyze CO2 to CO and O2, 10 to 22 grams per hour, 300W
p147-167, Mariner 2, Venera 7-14, hypothetical Apollo-derived flyby, hypothetical AREE lander
p171-171 1966 JPL Gary Flandro grand tour, Voyages 1 and 2

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