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Red rover : inside the story of robotic space exploration, from Genesis to the Mars rover curiosity / Roger Wiens.

by Wiens, Roger.

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Basic Books, c2013.

Curiosity (Spacecraft)

Genesis (Spacecraft)

Space robotics.

Roving vehicles (Astronautics) -- Instruments.

Mars (Planet) -- Exploration.

9780465055982 (hc.)

0465055982 (hc.)

xii, 233 p., [8] p. of plates : ill. (chiefly col.) ; 25 cm.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 217-218) and index.

Genesis. From Minnesota to the Moon ; The dawn of an era ; Mission selection ; Mission Genesis ; Beyond the Moon and back ; Impact ; Vindication. -- Path to Mars. Lasers and rovers ; Fire! ; To Mars and back-- almost -- The French connection ; Ticket to Mars ; New-instrument struggles ; Canceled ; Soldiering on ; Rover motors ; Finishing ChemCam ; On the rover -- Curiosity. Coming together ; Where on Mars? ; Back to the Cape ; Seven minutes of terror ; Landing on Mars.

"In its eerie likeness to Earth, Mars has long captured our imaginations—both as a destination for humankind and as a possible home to extraterrestrial life. It is our twenty-first century New World; its explorers robots, shipped 350 million miles from Earth to uncover the distant planet’s secrets. An inspiring account of the real-life challenges of space exploration, Red Rover vividly narrates what goes into answering the question: is there life elsewhere in the universe?"--Publisher.

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