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Exploration and Engineering

- The Jet Propulsion Laboratory and the Quest for Mars
Af: Erik M. Conway Engelsk Hardback

Exploration and Engineering

- The Jet Propulsion Laboratory and the Quest for Mars
Af: Erik M. Conway Engelsk Hardback
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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.

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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.

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Sprog: Engelsk
Sider: 416
ISBN-13: 9781421416045
Indbinding: Hardback
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ISBN-10: 1421416042
Kategori: Naturvidenskabens historie
Udg. Dato: 25 maj 2015
Længde: 34mm
Bredde: 161mm
Højde: 239mm
Forlag: Johns Hopkins University Press
Oplagsdato: 25 maj 2015
Forfatter(e): Erik M. Conway
Forfatter(e) Erik M. Conway

Kategori Naturvidenskabens historie

ISBN-13 9781421416045

Sprog Engelsk

Indbinding Hardback

Sider 416

Udgave

Længde 34mm

Bredde 161mm

Højde 239mm

Udg. Dato 25 maj 2015

Oplagsdato 25 maj 2015

Forlag Johns Hopkins University Press

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