Going to Mars: The Stories of the People Behind NASA's Mars Missions Past, Present and Future [Paperback]

Brian Muirhead (Author), Judith Reeves-Stevens (Author), Garfield Reeves-Stevens (Author)

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Paperback: 272 pages
Publisher: Simon & Schuster Ltd; 1st Pocket Books Trade Pbk. Ed edition (16 May 2005)
Language English
ISBN-10: 0671027964
ISBN-13: 978-0671027964
Product Dimensions: 27.2 x 23 x 2.2 cm
Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 2,240,165 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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On July 4, 1997, the youngest and most unusual team of scientists ever assembled by NASA saved America's planetary space programme. They were the Pathfinder team, whose little Sojourner spacecraft had just landed on the surface of Mars. Now, as new probes race toward the red planet, Brian Muirhead - a Pathfinder alumnus - offers a history of Mars exploration and charts its enticing future. Few people have as deep an understanding of this odyssey as Muirhead does. Indeed, two of the probes that are scheduled to land on Mars in 2004 are direct descendants of the Sojourner he helped build. In GOING TO MARS, he recounts his firsthand experience at the heart of an epic endeavour - from the successes of Pathfinder, through the tragic failures of 1999, up to the exciting Mars explorations that are unfolding right now. He also offers an exciting and authoritative projection of what the future will look like, as Russia, China, the European Space Agency, and NASA all plan manned missions. GOING TO MARS is a classic, personal story of underdogs succeeding against the odds in an adventure as awe-inspiring as the best science fiction.

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Judith and Garfield Reeves-Stevens are a well-known science fiction writing team. They are the co-authors of William Shatner's bestselling Star Trek novels and their other bestsellers include the reference books The Art of Star Trek and The Next Generation: The Continuing Mission.

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A very entertaining book! 1 April 2006

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Being written by two science fiction writers (Judith and Garfield Reeves-Stevens) and a scientist (Brian Muirhead, who worked and still works with the Jet Propulsion Laboratory), this book is both unconventional and highly entertaining. Not only the technical dimension of space exploration is highlighted, but also the human aspect. What makes people want to explore space? How is an idea translated into an actual mission? How are the new BFC-missions (Better, Faster, Cheaper) managed? Etc. etc.

This book gives a lot of information on past, present and future missions to Mars, information that is often not covered in other books.

As Brian Muirhead was flight system manager of the team that developed the Mars Pathfinder, the first rover that landed on Mars in 1997, a substantial portion of the book is dedicated to this mission.

The book contains many black-and-white photographs of (only) reasonable quality. In the middle of the book are 32 pages with really very high quality photographs and artwork.

All in all to me this book deserves a full five stars. I really enjoyed reading it.

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