Brian Harvey, 2007, Springer/Praxis

ISBN#978-0387463438, 351 pgs, softcover

Table of Contents

Author's preface

Acknowledgement

List of figures

List of abbreviations and acronyms

1.    Aelita

2.    First Plans

3.    The first Mars, Venus probes

4.    OKB Lavochkin

5.    First landfall on Venus, Mars

6.    The high summer of Soviet planetary exploration, 1975-1986

7.    Phobos, crisis and decline

8.    Returning to the planets?

9.    The legacy

Appendix A-C

Index