Space Age Generation

William Sheehan is a retired psychiatrist, amateur astronomer, and astronomical historian who has written twenty books on astronomy. His most recent books are Discovering Mars (with Jim Bell) and Venus (with Sanjay Limaye).Klaus Brasch is a retired academic and life-long amateur astronomer. He has published more than one hundred biomedical research papers as well as numerous popular science articles dealing with astronomy and astrobiology.

“A great book—words and memories from those who were youths at the beginning of the Space Age and later became some of its important pioneers. Tales from those who gave us our modern understanding of the Moon and the planets.”—Tim Hunter, author of The Sky at Night“Planetary sciences during the latter half of the twentieth century were remarkable and in some ways unique—a new field of study being born before our eyes. It was a time when our knowledge of the solar system underwent a revolution that will never occur again. This volume collects the personal memoirs of some of those who experienced that revolution.”—Guy Consolmagno, co-author of Turn Left at Orion: Hundreds of Night Sky Objects to See in a Home Telescope—and How to Find Them

• Preface – William Sheehan & Klaus R. Brasch1. Introduction – William Sheehan2. En Route to the Planets – William K. Hartmann3. Pathway to Pluto – Dale P. Cruikshank4. On the Way to Mars - Baerbel Koesters Lucchitta5. First Light: Personal Reflections on Exploring the Planets – Peter Schultz6. From Pre-Sputnik to a Career in Planetary Science - Clark R. Chapman7. A Golden Age Revisited – William Sheehan8. It All Began with Venus – Klaus R. Brasch9. There’s No Such Thing as Now – Bill Leatherbarrow10. Growing Up with Apollo – Yvonne Jean Pendleton11. The Moon and Me – Charles A. Wood12. From My Backyard to Space – Paolo Tanga13. My Way to Space Studies – Alexander T. Basilevsky14. A Spark for Astronomy – Leo Aerts15. Epilogue and Future – William Sheehan