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Book Rising Mission to Mars  Extensive Collection of Space Exploration Research Papers   Biswesh Dhungana

Download or read book Rising Mission to Mars Extensive Collection of Space Exploration Research Papers Biswesh Dhungana written by Biswesh Dhungana and published by Biswesh Dhungana. This book was released on 2021-08-01 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It's now conceivable to develop a mission in Mars that can take humans to Mars and return them to Earth more safely and inexpensively than ever before, because of the advent of revolutionary new technologies from space firms and university academics. Rising Mission to Mars presents a well-established plan beginning with the Space Shuttle Challenger disaster to rekindle our hope in the human spirit by understanding the history and presence of life on Mars with the assistance of human crew on-site to provide more in-depth observational analysis than the unmanned rovers, while also establishing an atmosphere like Earth to investigate the possible prospects of life on Mars with the hope that possibility of human extinction could decrease by the colonization of other planets. Rising Mission to Mars goes in-depth to outline a feasible and cost-effective plan for Mars Manned Outpost Mission, which would initiate settlement on Mars and open the door to an entirely new frontier of possibility for human civilization.

Book Rising Mission to Mars

    Book Details:
  • Author : Biswesh Dhungana
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2021-08-09
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 130 pages

Download or read book Rising Mission to Mars written by Biswesh Dhungana and published by . This book was released on 2021-08-09 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It's now conceivable to develop a mission in Mars that can take humans to Mars and return them to Earth more safely and inexpensively than ever before, because of the advent of revolutionary new technologies from space firms and university academics. Rising Mission to Mars presents a well-established plan beginning with the Space Shuttle Challenger disaster to rekindle our hope in the human spirit by understanding the history and presence of life on Mars with the assistance of human crew on-site to provide more in-depth observational analysis than the unmanned rovers, while also establishing an atmosphere like Earth to investigate the possible prospects of life on Mars with the hope that possibility of human extinction could decrease by the colonization of other planets. Rising Mission to Mars goes in-depth to outline a feasible and cost-effective plan for Mars Manned Outpost Mission, which would initiate settlement on Mars and open the door to an entirely new frontier of possibility for human civilization.

Book Human Missions to Mars  Comprehensive Collection of NASA Plans  Proposals  Ongoing Research on Manned Mars Exploration  Robotic Precursors  Science Goals  Design Reference Mission   Part 1 Of 2

Download or read book Human Missions to Mars Comprehensive Collection of NASA Plans Proposals Ongoing Research on Manned Mars Exploration Robotic Precursors Science Goals Design Reference Mission Part 1 Of 2 written by World Spaceflight News and published by . This book was released on 2017-09-08 with total page 498 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sixteen landmark papers, studies, reports, and proposals from 1968 through September 2012 trace the evolution of NASA-related concepts for the human exploration of Mars. Manned missions to the red planet have been rejected by some presidents (Nixon, Carter, Reagan, Clinton) and endorsed by others (Bush 41, Bush 43, and Obama). In the past five decades, planners and scientists have drawn up plans that attempt to overcome serious obstacles to these missions, which - as the saying goes - always seem to be decades away. This unique compilation provides a superb overview of manned Mars flight planning. The paperback version is divided into two parts because of its large size.The compilation, arranged in chronological order, begins with the first volume of the 1968 Boeing "manned interplanetary spacecraft" study and von Braun's 1969 Space Task Group presentation. The 1986 Working Group Summary Report contains the Shuttle-era ideas presented at an LANL/Marshall meeting. In 1989, President George H. W. Bush unveiled the Space Exploration Initiative; our compilation includes the incisive book about the failure of the SEI, Mars Wars, as well as the infamous NASA 90-day study report. Our next reports come from 2005 and 2008, with planning group analysis of scientific exploration goals of human missions.From 2009, we have the latest NASA Mars Design Reference Architecture 5.0, along with an alternative austere mission concept, both using elements of the Constellation program.There are seven reports and documents from 2012, including the newly released and influential Mars Program Planning Group report on robotic and manned missions; papers on human exploration and precursors, strategic knowledge gaps for solar system exploration, two NASA headquarters documents outlining potential manned exploration missions under the latest Obama administration plan, and testimony in September 2012 before House and Senate space committees on exploration goals, the Space Launch System rocket, and the Orion crew capsule.Contents: PART ONE - Chapter 1 - 1968 - Boeing Integrated Manned Interplanetary Spacecraft Concept Definition * Chapter 2 - 1969 - Manned Mars Landing Presentation To The Space Task Group * Chapter 3 - 1986 - Manned Mars Missions Working Group Summary Report * Chapter 4 - 1989 - Mars Wars * Chapter 5 - 2005 - Mars Human Precursor Science Steering Group * Chapter 6 - 2005 - Analysis of the Precursor Measurements of Mars Needed to Reduce the Risk of the First Human Mission to Mars * PART TWO - Chapter 7 - 2008 - Planning for the Scientific Exploration of Mars by Humans by the MEPAG Human Exploration of Mars Science Analysis Group * Chapter 8 - 2009 - Austere Human Missions to Mars * Chapter 9 - 2009 - Human Exploration of Mars Design Reference Architecture 5.0 * Chapter 10 - 2012 - Human Exploration and Precursors * Chapter 11 - 2012 - NASA Exploration Destinations, Goals, and International Collaboration * Chapter 12 - 2012 - Mars Program Planning Group September 2012 Report * Chapter 13 - 2012 - Strategic Knowledge Gaps: Planning for Safe, Effective, and Efficient Human Exploration of the Solar System * Chapter 14 - 2012 - Analysis of Strategic Knowledge Gaps Associated with Potential Human Missions to the Martian System * Chapter 15 - 2012 - Voyages: Charting the Course for Sustainable Human Space Exploration * Chapter 16 - 2012 - Senate and House Hearings on Exploration Goals, SLS, and Orion

Book NASA s Journey to Mars  Pioneering Next Steps in Space Exploration

Download or read book NASA s Journey to Mars Pioneering Next Steps in Space Exploration written by National Aeronautics and Space Administration and published by Government Printing Office. This book was released on 2016-02-05 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This document communicates NASA’s strategy and progress to learn about the Red Planet, to inform us more about our Earth’s past and future, and may help answer whether life exists beyond our home planet. Together with NASA’s partners in academia and commercial enterprises, NASA’s vision is to pioneer Mars and answer some of humanity’s fundamental questions: • Was Mars home to microbial life? Is it today? • Could it be a safe home for humans one day? • What can it teach us about life elsewhere in the cosmos or how life began on Earth? • What can it teach us about Earth’s past, present, and future?

Book Report of the 90 day Study on Human Exploration of the Moon and Mars

Download or read book Report of the 90 day Study on Human Exploration of the Moon and Mars written by United States and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Recapturing a Future for Space Exploration

Download or read book Recapturing a Future for Space Exploration written by National Research Council and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2012-01-30 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: More than four decades have passed since a human first set foot on the Moon. Great strides have been made in our understanding of what is required to support an enduring human presence in space, as evidenced by progressively more advanced orbiting human outposts, culminating in the current International Space Station (ISS). However, of the more than 500 humans who have so far ventured into space, most have gone only as far as near-Earth orbit, and none have traveled beyond the orbit of the Moon. Achieving humans' further progress into the solar system had proved far more difficult than imagined in the heady days of the Apollo missions, but the potential rewards remain substantial. During its more than 50-year history, NASA's success in human space exploration has depended on the agency's ability to effectively address a wide range of biomedical, engineering, physical science, and related obstacles-an achievement made possible by NASA's strong and productive commitments to life and physical sciences research for human space exploration, and by its use of human space exploration infrastructures for scientific discovery. The Committee for the Decadal Survey of Biological and Physical Sciences acknowledges the many achievements of NASA, which are all the more remarkable given budgetary challenges and changing directions within the agency. In the past decade, however, a consequence of those challenges has been a life and physical sciences research program that was dramatically reduced in both scale and scope, with the result that the agency is poorly positioned to take full advantage of the scientific opportunities offered by the now fully equipped and staffed ISS laboratory, or to effectively pursue the scientific research needed to support the development of advanced human exploration capabilities. Although its review has left it deeply concerned about the current state of NASA's life and physical sciences research, the Committee for the Decadal Survey on Biological and Physical Sciences in Space is nevertheless convinced that a focused science and engineering program can achieve successes that will bring the space community, the U.S. public, and policymakers to an understanding that we are ready for the next significant phase of human space exploration. The goal of this report is to lay out steps and develop a forward-looking portfolio of research that will provide the basis for recapturing the excitement and value of human spaceflight-thereby enabling the U.S. space program to deliver on new exploration initiatives that serve the nation, excite the public, and place the United States again at the forefront of space exploration for the global good.

Book Pathways to Exploration

    Book Details:
  • Author : National Research Council
  • Publisher : National Academies Press
  • Release : 2014-09-30
  • ISBN : 0309305101
  • Pages : 405 pages

Download or read book Pathways to Exploration written by National Research Council and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2014-09-30 with total page 405 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The United States has publicly funded its human spaceflight program on a continuous basis for more than a half-century, through three wars and a half-dozen recessions, from the early Mercury and Gemini suborbital and Earth orbital missions, to the lunar landings, and thence to the first reusable winged crewed spaceplane that the United States operated for three decades. Today the United States is the major partner in a massive orbital facility - the International Space Station - that is becoming the focal point for the first tentative steps in commercial cargo and crewed orbital space flights. And yet, the long-term future of human spaceflight beyond this project is unclear. Pronouncements by multiple presidents of bold new ventures by Americans to the Moon, to Mars, and to an asteroid in its native orbit, have not been matched by the same commitment that accompanied President Kennedy\'s now fabled 1961 speech-namely, the substantial increase in NASA funding needed to make it happen. Are we still committed to advancing human spaceflight? What should a long-term goal be, and what does the United States need to do to achieve it? Pathways to Exploration explores the case for advancing this endeavor, drawing on the history of rationales for human spaceflight, examining the attitudes of stakeholders and the public, and carefully assessing the technical and fiscal realities. This report recommends maintaining the long-term focus on Mars as the horizon goal for human space exploration. With this goal in mind, the report considers funding levels necessary to maintain a robust tempo of execution, current research and exploration projects and the time/resources needed to continue them, and international cooperation that could contribute to the achievement of spaceflight to Mars. According to Pathways to Exploration, a successful U.S. program would require sustained national commitment and a budget that increases by more than the rate of inflation. In reviving a U.S. human exploration program capable of answering the enduring questions about humanity's destiny beyond our tiny blue planet, the nation will need to grapple with the attitudinal and fiscal realities of the nation today while staying true to a small but crucial set of fundamental principles for the conduct of exploration of the endless frontier. The recommendations of Pathways to Exploration provide a clear map toward a human spaceflight program that inspires students and citizens by furthering human exploration and discovery, while taking into account the long-term commitment necessary to achieve this goal.

Book Human Missions to Mars  Comprehensive Collection of NASA Plans  Proposals  Ongoing Research on Manned Mars Exploration  Robotic Precursors  Science Goals  Design Reference Mission   Part 2 Of 2

Download or read book Human Missions to Mars Comprehensive Collection of NASA Plans Proposals Ongoing Research on Manned Mars Exploration Robotic Precursors Science Goals Design Reference Mission Part 2 Of 2 written by World Spaceflight News and published by . This book was released on 2017-09-08 with total page 422 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sixteen landmark papers, studies, reports, and proposals from 1968 through September 2012 trace the evolution of NASA-related concepts for the human exploration of Mars. Manned missions to the red planet have been rejected by some presidents (Nixon, Carter, Reagan, Clinton) and endorsed by others (Bush 41, Bush 43, and Obama). In the past five decades, planners and scientists have drawn up plans that attempt to overcome serious obstacles to these missions, which - as the saying goes - always seem to be decades away. This unique compilation provides a superb overview of manned Mars flight planning. The paperback version is divided into two parts because of its large size.The compilation, arranged in chronological order, begins with the first volume of the 1968 Boeing "manned interplanetary spacecraft" study and von Braun's 1969 Space Task Group presentation. The 1986 Working Group Summary Report contains the Shuttle-era ideas presented at an LANL/Marshall meeting. In 1989, President George H. W. Bush unveiled the Space Exploration Initiative; our compilation includes the incisive book about the failure of the SEI, Mars Wars, as well as the infamous NASA 90-day study report. Our next reports come from 2005 and 2008, with planning group analysis of scientific exploration goals of human missions.From 2009, we have the latest NASA Mars Design Reference Architecture 5.0, along with an alternative austere mission concept, both using elements of the Constellation program.There are seven reports and documents from 2012, including the newly released and influential Mars Program Planning Group report on robotic and manned missions; papers on human exploration and precursors, strategic knowledge gaps for solar system exploration, two NASA headquarters documents outlining potential manned exploration missions under the latest Obama administration plan, and testimony in September 2012 before House and Senate space committees on exploration goals, the Space Launch System rocket, and the Orion crew capsule.Contents: PART ONE - Chapter 1 - 1968 - Boeing Integrated Manned Interplanetary Spacecraft Concept Definition * Chapter 2 - 1969 - Manned Mars Landing Presentation To The Space Task Group * Chapter 3 - 1986 - Manned Mars Missions Working Group Summary Report * Chapter 4 - 1989 - Mars Wars * Chapter 5 - 2005 - Mars Human Precursor Science Steering Group * Chapter 6 - 2005 - Analysis of the Precursor Measurements of Mars Needed to Reduce the Risk of the First Human Mission to Mars * PART TWO - Chapter 7 - 2008 - Planning for the Scientific Exploration of Mars by Humans by the MEPAG Human Exploration of Mars Science Analysis Group * Chapter 8 - 2009 - Austere Human Missions to Mars * Chapter 9 - 2009 - Human Exploration of Mars Design Reference Architecture 5.0 * Chapter 10 - 2012 - Human Exploration and Precursors * Chapter 11 - 2012 - NASA Exploration Destinations, Goals, and International Collaboration * Chapter 12 - 2012 - Mars Program Planning Group September 2012 Report * Chapter 13 - 2012 - Strategic Knowledge Gaps: Planning for Safe, Effective, and Efficient Human Exploration of the Solar System * Chapter 14 - 2012 - Analysis of Strategic Knowledge Gaps Associated with Potential Human Missions to the Martian System * Chapter 15 - 2012 - Voyages: Charting the Course for Sustainable Human Space Exploration * Chapter 16 - 2012 - Senate and House Hearings on Exploration Goals, SLS, and Orion

Book International Exploration of Mars

Download or read book International Exploration of Mars written by and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Mission to Mars

    Book Details:
  • Author : Buzz Aldrin
  • Publisher : National Geographic Books
  • Release : 2015
  • ISBN : 1426214685
  • Pages : 292 pages

Download or read book Mission to Mars written by Buzz Aldrin and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2015 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Buzz Aldrin speaks out as a vital advocate for the continuing quest to push the boundaries of the universe as we know it. As a pioneering astronaut who first set foot on the moon during mankind's first landing of Apollo 11-- and as an aerospace engineer who designed an orbital rendezvous technique critical to future planetary landings -- Aldrin has a vision, and in this book he plots out the path he proposes, taking humans to Mars by 2035. --

Book Mars Wars

    Book Details:
  • Author : World Spaceflight News
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2017-05-08
  • ISBN : 9781521251058
  • Pages : 137 pages

Download or read book Mars Wars written by World Spaceflight News and published by . This book was released on 2017-05-08 with total page 137 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the 2007 AIAA History Manuscript Award, Mars Wars: The Rise and Fall of the Space Exploration Initiative investigates one of the most important chapters in the history of the American space program. This is a story of bureaucratic infighting, personality clashes, cultural struggles, and a deeply flawed policy process that ultimately doomed an effort to provide direction to a directionless agency by sending humans to the red planet. "Thor Hogan has put together a careful and comprehensive account of a failed space initiative that has provided cautionary insights for those planning the U.S. future in space. The nation chose not to go back to the Moon and on to Mars almost twenty years ago. It is embarked on that path now, and one can only hope the results are more positive this time around. Think where we could be by now if we had chosen the exploratory focus proposed by President George H.W Bush in 1989. Hogan's account makes it clear why that did not happen." John Logsdon, The George Washington University "From even before the beginning of the space age advocates have developed plans for the human exploration of Mars. It was a part of the long range plan of NASA in 1959 and has been a significant goal in NASA's efforts thereafter. In 1989 space advocates persuaded President George H.W. Bush to announce the Space Exploration Initiative, which would lead to a mission to Mars. Thor Hogan's study tells the details of this initiative for the first time, offering an important perspective on the still-born effort as it died a long death in the Washington bureaucracy." Roger Launius, Smithsonian Institution Contents: Chapter 1: Introduction * The Policy Stream and Punctuated Equilibrium Models * Why Mars? * Canals on Mars * Mars in Popular Culture * Mariner and Viking * Chapter 2: The Origins of SEI * Early Mission Planning * Post-Apollo Planning * Case for Mars * National Commission on Space * The Ride Report * President Reagan and NASA's Office of Exploration * Chapter 3: Bush, Quayle, and SEI * Bush-Quayle 1988 * Reagan-Bush Transition * The Problem Stream: Providing Direction to a Directionless Agency * The Policy Stream: The Ad Hoc Working Group * The Political Stream: Briefing Key Actors * Joining the Streams: Human Exploration of Mars Reaches the Gov. Agenda * Chapter 4: The 90-Day Study * Waiting for NASA * SEI Takes Shape * Mars Wars * Chapter 5: The Battle to Save SEI * Presidential Decisions * SEI Hits the Road * Losing Faith in NASA * The Augustine and Synthesis Group Reports * SEI Fades Away * Chapter 6: SEI, Policy Streams, and Punctuated Equilibrium * Policy Streams, SEI, and the Space Policy Community * Punctuated Equilibrium, Space Policy, and SEI * Chapter 7: The Lessons of SEI

Book Mars

    Book Details:
  • Author : Robert Godwin
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1999-11
  • ISBN : 9781896522623
  • Pages : 424 pages

Download or read book Mars written by Robert Godwin and published by . This book was released on 1999-11 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The exploration of Mars is brought up to date with this collection of the latest results from the Mars Exploration Rovers, and the Mars Global Surveyor and Mars Odyssey missions.

Book Mission to Mars

    Book Details:
  • Author : James E. Oberg
  • Publisher : Stackpole Books
  • Release : 2017-09-15
  • ISBN : 0811766624
  • Pages : 222 pages

Download or read book Mission to Mars written by James E. Oberg and published by Stackpole Books. This book was released on 2017-09-15 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How feasible is a manned Mars flight? How soon will it be possible? How long will it take? What kind of spacecraft will make the journey? What kind of data will be collected? What are the advantages of a manned flight over an unmanned? Mission to Mars discusses these questions and more in this serious, documented treatment of the not-too-distant manned expedition to Mars. The shuttle has proved successful and an enthusiastic boost to American interest in space. But while many laypeople wonder “what’s next,” scientists are planning what they feel is the next logical step. Drawing on the vast amount of data sent back by Viking orbiters and probes, and existing developments in propulsion and space technology, space experts all over have been speculating, analyzing, and exchanging ideas relative to the long-awaited mission to Mars. Other factors, critical to an intelligent discussion of such an undertaking are included here: spaceship design and assembly, propulsion systems, navigation principles, life support systems, selecting a landing site, scientific activities on Mars, cost factors, political and social issues.

Book Mars  Our New Home

Download or read book Mars Our New Home written by National Aeronautics and Space Administration and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2023-12-12 with total page 126 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: President Donald Trump signed the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Transition Authorization Act of 2017, the first comprehensive NASA authorization act passed in seven years by Congress, authorizing $19.5 billion in funding for deep space exploration and human travel to Mars by 2030. NASA will lead our nation and our world on a journey to Mars. Like the Apollo Program, they will embark on this journey for all humanity. Mars is the horizon goal for pioneering space; it is the next tangible frontier for expanding human presence. Mars have found valuable resources for sustaining human pioneers, such as water ice just below the surface. Mars had conditions suitable for life, but will it our new home?" Table of Contents: Basic Facts About Mars Journey to Mars - Introduction Journey to Mars - Pioneering Next Steps in Space Exploration: Our Goal Our Approach: Pioneering Principles Three Phases on Our Journey to Mars Our Strategy for the Journey to Mars Our Progress and Plans on the Journey to Mars Pioneering Challenges Government's Authorization of the Plan - An Act to Authorize the Programs of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, and for Other Purposes

Book Mars

    Book Details:
  • Author : Robert Godwin
  • Publisher : Burlington, Ont. : Apogee Books
  • Release : 2004
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 420 pages

Download or read book Mars written by Robert Godwin and published by Burlington, Ont. : Apogee Books. This book was released on 2004 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1877 the famed Italian astronomer Giovanni Schiaparelli used his brand-new 8.6 inch telescope to study the planets. To his great surprise he suspected that he saw symmetry on Mars. In the years that followed one astronomer after another looked at the red planet and gradually a mythology was formed -- a mythology of alien intellect. By the 1890's the martial influence had spilled over into all walks of life and sparked philosophical debates and wondrous fictions. Scientists, fantasists and people of all creeds looked up and wondered -- is there life out there? Now, more than a century later, nations around the world are bombarding Mars with an unprecedented fleet of exploratory vehicles. Their journey taking less time than it took Amundsen and Shackleton to reach the poles of Earth, these small but hardy robotic emissaries are thrusting their way through the depths of interplanetary space to take up residence in the barren Martian deserts. Their goal is to answer one of the oldest questions in mankind's history. Is there life out there? In this sequel to the best-selling first volume, the reader is brought up to date with the most recent results from our nearest neighbour. Filled with a wealth of facts about the latest fleet of Martian explorers as well as a look at what may be coming next in mankind's most ambitious quest for knowledge. Includes DVD-V / DVD-ROM featuring: Exclusive interviews with Mars Rover Mission Scientist Steve Squyres, Senior Flight Engineer Rob Manning, Mission Manager Jim Eriksen, the complete Cornell animation of the Rovers created by Maas Digital, a NASA animation of a proposed Manned Mars mission, the exciting mission control broadcast of the landing of Opportunity in Meridiani Planum and as an added extra special bonus, extremely rare video of Dr Wernher von Braun filmed in 1976 at the occasion of his last public speech about Mars exploration.

Book Journey to Inspire  Innovate  and Discover

Download or read book Journey to Inspire Innovate and Discover written by United States. President's Commission on Implementation of United States Space Exploration Policy and published by U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Admi. This book was released on 2004 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chairman: Edward C. "Pete" Aldridge, Jr.

Book Exploration and Engineering

Download or read book Exploration and Engineering written by Erik M. Conway and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2015-03-30 with total page 417 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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. "A masterpiece of research and writing."—Quest: History of Spaceflight Quarterly "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."—Midwest Book Review "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."—Sky at Night 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.