Space ExplorationA History in 100 Objects

Foreword by John Mather
 Introduction
 The Blombos Ochre Drawing
 The Abri Blanchard Bone Plaque
 The Egyptian Star Clock
 The Nebra Sky Disk
 The Venus Tablet of Ammisaduqa
 The Star Charts of Senenmut
 The Merkhet
 The Nimrud Lens
 The Greek Armillary Sphere
 The Diopter
 Antikythera Mechanism
 Hipparchus's Star Atlas
 The Astrolabe
 The Dunhuang Star Atlas
 Al-Khwārizmī's Algebra Textbook
 The Dresden Codex
 The Chaco Canyon Sun Dagger
 Giovanni de' Dondi's Astrarium
 The Big Horn Medicine Wheel
 The Ensisheim Stone
 De Revolutionibus
 Tycho's Mural Quadrant
 Galileo's Telescope
 The Slide Rule
 The Eyepiece Micrometer
 The Clock Drive
 The Meridian Circle
 The Skidi Pawnee Star Chart
 Smoked-Glass Sun Viewing
 The Gyroscope
 The Electric Battery
 Pilâtre de Rozier and d'Arlandes's Balloon
 William Herschel's Forty-Foot Telescope
 The Spectroscope
 The Daguerreotype Camera
 The Solar Panel
 The Leviathan of Parsonstown
 Crookes Tube
 The Triode Vacuum Tube
 The Ion Rocket Engine
 The Hooker Telescope
 Robert Goddard's Rocket
 The Van de Graaff Generator
 The Coronagraph
 Jansky's Merry-Go-Round Radio Telescope
 The V-2 Rocket
 ENIAC
 Colossus Mark 2
 The Radio Interferometer
 The Heat Shield
 The Integrated Circuit
 The Atomic Clock
 Space Fasteners
 The Hydrogen Line Radio Telescope
 The X-Ray Imaging Telescope
 The Hydrogen Bomb
 The Radioisotope Thermoelectric Generator
 The Nuclear Rocket Engine
 Sputnik
 Vanguard 1
 Luna 3
 The Endless Loop Magnetic Tape Recorder
 The Laser
 Space Food
 The Space Suit
 Syncom 2 (and 3)
 The Vidicon Camera
 The Space Blanket
 The Handheld Maneuvering Unit
 Apollo 1 Block I Hatch
 The Interface Message Processor
 The Hasselblad Camera
 Apollo 11 Moon Rocks
 The CCD Imager
 The Lunar Laser Ranging RetroReflector
 The Apollo Lunar Television Camera
 The Homestake Gold Mine Neutrino Detector
 Lunokhod 1
 The Skylab Exercise Bike
 The Laser Geodynamics Satellite (LAGEOS)
 Smoot's Differential Microwave Radiometer
 The Viking Remote-Controlled Sampling Arm
 The"Rubber Mirror."
 The Multi-Fiber Spectrograph
 The Venera Landers
 The Compromised Challenger O-Rings
 COSTAR
 CMOS Sensors
 The Allan Hills Meteorite
 Sojourner
 Gravity Probe B
 LIDAR
 The Large Hadron Collider
 The Kepler Space Telescope
 Curiosity Rover
 Mangalyaan-the Mars Orbiter Mission
 A 3-D Printed Ratchet Wrench
 The LIGO Gravitational-Wave Interferometer
 The Tesla Roadster
 The Event Horizon Telescope. Cover
 Contents
 Foreword by John Mather
 Introduction
 1. The Blombos Ochre Drawing
 2. The Abri Blanchard Bone Plaque
 3. The Egyptian Star Clock
 4. The Nebra Sky Disk
 5. The Venus Tablet of Ammisaduqa
 6. The Star Charts of Senenmut
 7. The Merkhet
 8. The Nimrud Lens
 9. The Greek Armillary Sphere
 10. The Diopter
 11. Antikythera Mechanism
 12. Hipparchus's Star Atlas
 13. The Astrolabe
 14. The Dunhuang Star Atlas
 15. Al-Khwārizmī's Algebra Textbook
 16. The Dresden Codex
 17. The Chaco Canyon Sun Dagger
 18. Giovanni de' Dondi's Astrarium
 19. The Big Horn Medicine Wheel 20. The Ensisheim Stone21. De Revolutionibus
 22. Tycho's Mural Quadrant
 23. Galileo's Telescope
 24. The Slide Rule
 25. The Eyepiece Micrometer
 26. The Clock Drive
 27. The Meridian Circle
 28. The Skidi Pawnee Star Chart
 29. Smoked-Glass Sun Viewing
 30. The Gyroscope
 31. The Electric Battery
 32. Pilâtre de Rozier and d'Arlandes's Balloon
 33. William Herschel's Forty-Foot Telescope
 34. The Spectroscope
 35. The Daguerreotype Camera
 36. The Solar Panel
 37. The Leviathan of Parsonstown
 38. Crookes Tube
 39. The Triode Vacuum Tube
 40. The Ion Rocket Engine
 41. The Hooker Telescope 42. Robert Goddard's Rocket43. The Van de Graaff Generator
 44. The Coronagraph
 45. Jansky's Merry-Go-Round Radio Telescope
 46. The V-2 Rocket
 47. ENIAC
 48. Colossus Mark 2
 49. The Radio Interferometer
 50. The Heat Shield
 51. The Integrated Circuit
 52. The Atomic Clock
 53. Space Fasteners
 54. The Hydrogen Line Radio Telescope
 55. The X-Ray Imaging Telescope
 56. The Hydrogen Bomb
 57. The Radioisotope Thermoelectric Generator
 58. The Nuclear Rocket Engine
 59. Sputnik
 60. Vanguard 1
 61. Luna 3
 62. The Endless Loop Magnetic Tape Recorder
 63. The Laser
 64. Space Food 65. The Space Suit66. Syncom 2 (and 3)
 67. The Vidicon Camera
 68. The Space Blanket
 69. The Handheld Maneuvering Unit
 70. Apollo 1 Block I Hatch
 71. The Interface Message Processor
 72. The Hasselblad Camera
 73. Apollo 11 Moon Rocks
 74. The CCD Imager
 75. The Lunar Laser Ranging RetroReflector
 76. The Apollo Lunar Television Camera
 77. The Homestake Gold Mine Neutrino Detector
 78. Lunokhod 1
 79. The Skylab Exercise Bike
 80. The Laser Geodynamics Satellite (LAGEOS)
 81. Smoot's Differential Microwave Radiometer
 82. The Viking Remote-Controlled Sampling Arm
 83. The"Rubber Mirror." 84. The Multi-Fiber Spectrograph85. The Venera Landers
 86. The Compromised Challenger O-Rings
 87. COSTAR
 88. CMOS Sensors
 89. The Allan Hills Meteorite
 90. Sojourner
 91. Gravity Probe B
 92. LIDAR
 93. The Large Hadron Collider
 94. The Kepler Space Telescope
 95. Curiosity Rover
 96. Mangalyaan-the Mars Orbiter Mission
 97. A 3-D Printed Ratchet Wrench
 98. The LIGO Gravitational-Wave Interferometer
 99. The Tesla Roadster
 100. The Event Horizon Telescope
 Resources and Photo Credits
 Acknowledgments
 About the Author