: Anthony Young
: Lunar and Planetary Rovers The Wheels of Apollo and the Quest for Mars
: Springer-Verlag
: 9780387685472
: 1
: CHF 43.70
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: Astronomie: Allgemeines, Nachschlagewerke
: English
: 306
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This book fills a need for a complete history of the Lunar Roving Vehicle used on Apollo 15, 16 and 17, drawing on many photographs never before published. It also tells the story of the robotic rovers used on Mars, and concludes with a description of the new designs of rovers planned for The New Vision for Exploration now underway at NASA. The book provides extensive quotes from the astronauts who drove the LRV on the Moon from interviews conducted especially for the book. It also details new material from interviews of engineers and managers at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory covering the robotic rovers, Sojourner, Sprit and Opportunity.

Table of contents7
Foreword12
Author's Preface15
Acknowledgements17
List of Illustrations19
From concept to reality25
The Lunar Roving Vehicle subsystems53
Training for the Moon81
To the Hadley Plains109
Mysterious and unknown Descartes153
Destiny at Taurus-Littrow187
The quest for Mars233
The Vision for Space Exploration277
Appendix 1: planetary rover missions306
Appendix 2: The Lunokhods - Russia's marvelous robotic rovers316
Bibliography318
Index324