URL: https://digitalcollections.hoover.org/objects/1246
Collection Structure Commonwealth Club of California records >  Sound recordings of club programs >  The Future of Planetary Exploration
Item Title The Future of Planetary Exploration
Collection Title Commonwealth Club of California records
Speaker Frosch, Robert A. (Robert Alan) (1928-)
Date Created September 14, 1979
Description Frosch discusses NASA's planetary exploration program, beginning with past and present reconnaissance efforts. the next step will be systematic, more comprehensive exploration, and finally intensive study. Summing up what's been learned so far via this program, the diversity of the planets is their most impressive single feature. Frosch talks about future plans, including Voyagers I and II, Galileo, humans in space, and an extraterrestrial machine that could use solar energy and local materials to build a replica of itself in space.
Subject(s) Planets United States. National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Language(s) English
Country of Origin United States
Place Recorded San Francisco, California, United States
Format Sound Recording
Medium speeches (documents)
Hoover ID Program 19790914; 2003c87_a_0011671
Record Number 2003C87.935
Collection Guide https://oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/kt3g5032c1
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