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Exploration and engineering : the Jet Propulsion Laboratory and the quest for Mars / Erik M. Conway.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Publication details: Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, (c)2015.Description: 1 online resource (viii, 405 pages :) : illustrationsContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781421416052
Subject(s): Genre/Form: LOC classification:
  • TL799 .E975 2015
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Contents:
Politics and engineering on the Martian frontier -- Attack of the great galactic ghoul! -- Engineering for uncertainty -- Mars mania! -- The faster, better, cheaper future -- Revenge of the great galactic ghoul -- Recovery and reform -- Margins on the final frontier -- Sending a spy satellite to Mars -- Robotic geologists on Mars -- Mars phoenix : re-engineering the Polar Lander.
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Includes bibliographies and index.

Planetary observers, Mars observer -- Politics and engineering on the Martian frontier -- Attack of the great galactic ghoul! -- Engineering for uncertainty -- Mars mania! -- The faster, better, cheaper future -- Revenge of the great galactic ghoul -- Recovery and reform -- Margins on the final frontier -- Sending a spy satellite to Mars -- Robotic geologists on Mars -- Mars phoenix : re-engineering the Polar Lander.

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