Exploration and Engineering: The Jet Propulsion Laboratory and the Quest for Mars by Conway, Erik M.

Exploration and Engineering: The Jet Propulsion Laboratory and the Quest for Mars

Getting to Mars required engineering genius, scientific strategy, and the drive to persevere in the face of...
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Exploration and Engineering: The Jet Propulsion Laboratory and the Quest for Mars by Conway, Erik M.

Exploration and Engineering: The Jet Propulsion Laboratory and the Quest for Mars

€74,42

Exploration and Engineering: The Jet Propulsion Laboratory and the Quest for Mars

€74,42
Author: Erik M. Conway
Format: Hardcover
Language: English

Getting to Mars required engineering genius, scientific strategy, and the drive to persevere in the face of failure.

Although the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, has become synonymous with the United States' planetary exploration during the past half century, its most recent focus has been on Mars. Beginning in the 1990s and continuing through the Mars Phoenix mission of 2007, JPL led the way in engineering an impressive, rapidly evolving succession of Mars orbiters and landers, including roving robotic vehicles whose successful deployment onto the Martian surface posed some of the most complicated technical problems in space flight history.

In Exploration and Engineering, Erik M. Conway reveals how JPL engineers' creative technological feats led to major breakthroughs in Mars exploration. He takes readers into the heart of the lab's problem-solving approach and management structure, where talented scientists grappled with technical challenges while also coping, not always successfully, with funding shortfalls, unrealistic schedules, and managerial turmoil.

Conway, JPL's historian, offers an insider's perspective into the changing goals of Mars exploration, the ways in which sophisticated computer simulations drove the design process, and the remarkable evolution of landing technologies over a thirty-year period.



Author: Erik M. Conway
Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
Published: 03/30/2015
Pages: 416
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.55lbs
Size: 9.50h x 6.30w x 1.30d
ISBN: 9781421416045


Review Citation(s):
Choice 08/01/2015

About the Author

Erik M. Conway is a historian of science and technology at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology. He is the author of Atmospheric Science at NASA: A History.




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