
Mars Rover Curiosity
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In the course of our enduring quest for knowledge about ourselves and our universe, we haven't found answers to one of our most fundamental questions: Does life exist anywhere else in the universe? Ten years and billions of dollars in the making, the Mars Rover Curiosity is poised to answer this all-important question.
In Mars Rover Curiosity: An Inside Account from Curiosity's Chief Engineer, Rob Manning, the project's chief engineer, tells of bringing the groundbreaking spacecraft to life. Manning and his team at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, tasked with designing a lander many times larger and more complex than any before, faced technical setbacks, fights over inadequate resources, and the challenges of leading an army of brilliant, passionate, and often frustrated experts.
Manning's fascinating personal account--which includes information from his exclusive interviews with leading Curiosity scientists--is packed with tales of revolutionary feats of science, technology, and engineering. Readers experience firsthand the disappointment at encountering persistent technical problems, the agony of near defeat, the sense of victory at finding innovative solutions to these problems, the sheer terror of staking careers and reputations on a lander that couldn't be tested on Earth, and the rush of triumph at its successful touchdown on Mars on August 5, 2012. This is the story of persistence, dedication, and unrelenting curiosity.
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- Intro
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Contents
- Prologue: Seven Minutes of Terror
- Chapter 1. The Red Planet Fixation
- Chapter 2. Joining the Mars Adventure
- Chapter 3. Avoiding Splat
- Chapter 4. The Birth of MSL
- Chapter 5. Looking Ahead to Putting People on Mars
- Chapter 6. The Challenges of Landing
- Chapter 7. The Right Kind of Crazy
- Chapter 8. Scientists at Work
- Chapter 9. The Challenges of Instrument Creation
- Chapter 10. Where the Devil Lives
- Chapter 11. It's All About the People
- Chapter 12. Bad to Worse
- Chapter 13. Up Against a Brick Wall
- Chapter 14. Shutdown and Restart
- Chapter 15. The Final Stretch
- Chapter 16. Gremlins
- Chapter 17. On Mars!
- Chapter 18. The Scientific Findings
- Appendix: NASA's Mars Missions
- Acknowledgments
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