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Past Issues of The Planetary Report
Halley's Comet Wrap-Up
Studying Halley's Comet from Earth and from Space, by Jürgen Rahe; The Science of Comets: A Post-Encounter Assessment, by D. Asoka Mendis; The Wobbling Nucleus of Halley's Comet, by Michael Belton; Halley's Comet Was Here! A Look at Halleymania, by Louis Friedman; The Next Step in Exploring Comets, by Marcia Neugebauer
Exploring Venus
Exploring Venus by Balloon, by Jacques Blamont; Encounters: Interplanetary Explorations from Afar, by J. Kelly Beatty; The Next Giant Leap: Space Exploration as Foreign Policy, by Ann Florini
Voyager 2 at Uranus
Exploring the Uranian Satellites, by Robert Hamilton Brown; The Magnetosphere of Uranus, by Norman F. Ness; Voyager 2 and the Uranian Rings, by Carolyn C. Porco; Voyager 2 Investigates the Atmosphere of Uranus, by Garry Hunt; An Ocean in Uranus? by David Stevenson; On to Neptune! by Ellis D. Miner
Venus by Radar
A Talk With Thomas O. Paine, by Louis Friedman; A Time to Act, by Louis Friedman; New Results From Venera 15 and 16, by N. A. Armand, V. L. Barsukov, and A. T. Basilevsky; The Stars Our Destination? The Feasibility of Interstellar Travel, by Robert L. Forward
Viking: The Tenth Anniversary
NASA, the Presidency and International Leadership, by Bruce C. Murray; There Is Life on Mars, and It Is Us! by Ray Bradbury; Let's Go to Mars Together, by Carl Sagan; Viking: Reflections After Ten Years, by James S. Martin, Jr.; A Millennium Project: Mars 2000, by Harrison Schmitt; New Robot Missions to Mars, by Louis D. Friedman and Alexander Zakharov; The Mars One Mission, by Kerry Mark Joëls
The Nucleus of Halley's Comet
Sifting Through Starlight: Evidence for Circumstellar Dust Disks, by Lewis Hobbs; Visiting a Comet: ICE Flies Through Giacobini-Zinner, by Edward Smith