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Mars Rover Curiosity - An Inside Account from Curiosity's Chief Engineer (Paperback)
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Mars Rover Curiosity - An Inside Account from Curiosity's Chief Engineer (Paperback)
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Loot Price R510
Discovery Miles 5 100
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The firsthand account of the trials and tribulations of engineering
one of the most complex pieces of space technology, the Mars Rover
Curiosity, by its chief engineer Rob Manning 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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