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Exploration et ingénierie : Le JPL et la quête de Mars
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Caractéristiques de l'objet
- État
- Subject Area
- Modern History, Space Exploration, Astrophysics, Earth Sciences, Planets, Planet Mars
- Educational Level
- Adult & Further Education
- Subject
- History, Engineering & Technology, Science
- ISBN
- 9781421421223
- Publication Name
- Exploration and Engineering : the Jet Propulsion Laboratory and the Quest for Mars
- Item Length
- 9in
- Publisher
- Johns Hopkins University Press
- Series
- New Series in NASA History Ser.
- Publication Year
- 2016
- Type
- Textbook
- Format
- Trade Paperback
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 1in
- Item Width
- 6in
- Item Weight
- 24.1 Oz
- Number of Pages
- 416 Pages
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Product Information
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.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press
ISBN-10
1421421224
ISBN-13
9781421421223
eBay Product ID (ePID)
229581117
Product Key Features
Publication Name
Exploration and Engineering : the Jet Propulsion Laboratory and the Quest for Mars
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Series
New Series in NASA History Ser.
Publication Year
2016
Type
Textbook
Number of Pages
416 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
9in
Item Height
1in
Item Width
6in
Item Weight
24.1 Oz
Additional Product Features
Grade from
College Graduate Student
Reviews
This book is a must-read in the history of space exploration. Students of engineering, management, and history of technology will find much to enjoy in this virtual tour behind the scenes of some of NASA's most famous and evocative missions., Readers unacquainted with how NASA centers operate, or with how humans build the robots that explore the planets, will benefit from this book. Even the initiated will find the depth of information impressively thorough and will likely find that they did not know JPL as well as they imagined., Will be appreciated by space enthusiasts, especially those interested in the perennial NASA battle over whether to fund unmanned science probes or human spaceflight., A great tale of ambition, mishap and recovery, building on extensive archival research and interviews with JPL managers, scientists and engineers, to deliver a detailed overview of each mission's feats and failures... Exploration and Engineering is a great book for everyone seriously interested in the struggles and achievements of JPL as NASA's centre for Mars exploration., A 'must' for any reader of modern astronomy who wants insights into how the lab conducts its research, solves problems, and handle[s] technological challenges., ""Readers unacquainted with how NASA centers operate, or with how humans build the robots that explore the planets, will benefit from this book. Even the initiated will find the depth of information impressively thorough and will likely find that they did not know JPL as well as they imagined."", A detailed book, Exploration and Engineering is a necessary read for anyon ewho wants to know about how space exploration becomes possible, useful to those studying the evolution and transmission of engineering knowledge,, According to Conway, there is a 'disconnect' between the desire to travel into space and the desire to understand it. This 'disconnect' is a more fundamental difficulty for NASA than decades' worth of budget cuts. It's a contradiction that's built into the agency's structure, which includes a human exploration program on the one hand and a scientific program on the other... Conway puts himself on the side of science, and, as far as he's concerned, humans are the wrong stuff. They shouldn't even be trying to get to another planet. Not only are they fragile, demanding, and expensive to ship; they're a mess.
Table of Content
Acknowledgements Introduction 1. Planetary Observers, Mars Observer 2. Politics and Engineering on the Martian Frontier 3. Attack of the Great Galactic Ghoul 4. Engineering for Uncertainty 5. Mars Mania 6. The Faster-Better-Cheaper Future 7. Revenge of the Great Galactic Ghoul 8. Recovery and Reform 9. Margins on the Final Frontier 10. Sending a Spy Satellite to Mars 11. Robotic Geologists on the Red Planet 12. Reengineering a Spacecraft, and a Program Conclusion Epilogue Appendix Notes Bibliography Index
Copyright Date
2015
Target Audience
Scholarly & Professional
Topic
Space Science, Earth Sciences / General, History
Dewey Decimal
523.43072/3
Dewey Edition
23
Illustrated
Yes
Genre
Science
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