Space at JPL.
William I. McLaughlin · NASA Technical Reports Server (NASA) · 1987
Various aspects of space RD the technological challenges posed by the Magellan mission to Venus (scheduled launch in 1989) are examined; and the histories of three mathematical problems with space applications are briefly recalled: the study of conic sections (applicable to orbits and trajectories), the development of formal logic (applicable to expert systems and artificial intelligence), and the restricted three-body problem of celestial mechanics.