Uplink-Downlink - A History of the Deep Space Network 1957-1997 (Paperback)

Surely there can be a few people in this day and age who are not familiar with the television images of a NASA spacecraft blasting off from Cape Kennedy in a splendid gout of smoke, fire, and steam to a rendezvous with an asteroid, comet, or planet in some remote corner of the solar system. This book is a history of the the deep space network which involves sending spacecrafts to space.