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Interstellar Age

Jim Bell, Penguin/Dutton 2015, Tigard Library 629.43 BEL

p46 Bell claims 1965, Caltech Gary Flandro invented "Grand Tour", little credit until 1998 NASA Exceptional Achievement Medal.
- probably not accurate
- Kohlhase p104: 1961, gravity assist invented by 25 yo Michael A. Minovitch, mathematician grad student at JPL, 1962, Grand Tour
- 1964 Max Hunter writes about it, 1965 Flandro works out details.
- Flandro: You have to learn not to be discouraged by experts
p68 11,000 work-years devoted to Voyager, 1/3 of the labor force for the Great Pyramid at Giza for King Cheops
- cite: C. Kohlhase The Voyager Neptume Travel Guide, JPL Publication 89-24 NASA ntrs page 135
  - Kohlhase: $865M, 5 trillion bits, Deep space network antenna captures 1e-16 W
p81 re. Voyager disks, Hawking said we are simply not evolved enough to make contact.
- Analogies to aboriginal contacts invalid; most damage was disease, we have science and can figure things out, contact will be very slow.

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- .p46 Caltech Gary Flandro invented "Grand Tour", little credit until 1998 NASA Exceptional Achievement Medal
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+ .p46 Bell claims 1965, Caltech Gary Flandro invented "Grand Tour", little credit until 1998 NASA Exceptional Achievement Medal. 
  .probably not accurate
  .Kohlhase p104: 1961, gravity assist invented by 25 yo Michael A. Minovitch, mathematician grad student at JPL, 1962, Grand Tour
  .1964 Max Hunter writes about it, 1965 Flandro works out details.
  .Flandro: ''You have to learn not to be discouraged by experts''
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-  . C. Kohlhase ''The Voyager Neptume Travel Guide'', [[ http://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uiug.30112056430637 | JPL Publication 89-24 ]] page 135
+  . cite: C. Kohlhase ''The Voyager Neptume Travel Guide'', [[ http://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uiug.30112056430637 | JPL Publication 89-24 ]] [[http://hdl.handle.net/2060/19900004096 | NASA ntrs]] page 135 
   .Kohlhase: $865M, 5 trillion bits, Deep space network antenna captures 1e-16 W
 .p81 re. Voyager disks, Hawking said we are simply not evolved enough to make contact.  
  .Analogies to aboriginal contacts invalid;  most damage was disease, we have science and can figure things out, contact will be very slow.