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The Adventures of Sojourner: The Mission to Mars That Thrilled the World (Library Binding)

by Susi Trautmann Wunsch (Author), Fpl (Illustrator)
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  • Library Binding: 64 pages
  • Publisher: Mikaya Press (Oct 1998)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0965049353
  • ISBN-13: 978-0965049351
  • Product Dimensions: 28.5 x 22.5 x 1.2 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 3.9 out of 5 stars See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 2,987,165 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)
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From the Publisher
The Adventures of Sojourner cited by Smithsonian Magazine
The Adventures of Sojourner was named as one of the "Notable Children's Books, 1998" by the editors of Smithsonian Magazine. --This text refers to the Paperback edition.

From the Author
The Mission to Mars that Thrilled Me!
As befits a book about space travel, this one descended from the clear blue sky. News accounts of the Mars Pathfinder mission over the Fourth of July weekend in 1997 seized my interest in an unexpected way. I found immediate and irresistible parallels between the Mars rover and "The Little Engine That Could," a favorite of my children and mine. Like the book’s character, the rover was small (hardly bigger than a breadbox) and intrepid. One could hardly resist anthropomorphizing her.

Then there were the engineers and scientists, the mostly young and enthusiastic "technocowgirls" and –boys who made this unconventional mission fly "better, faster, cheaper." They built the rover out of off-the-shelf parts, hurled her hundreds of millions of miles through space, then bounced her to the surface in a risky freight maneuver that could have netted them little more than a heap of shrapnel. Oh yeah, and then they had to steer the rover by remote control from 119-million miles away with a 10-minute time delay, across the cold, dry, rock-strewn surface of Mars.

I loved this event. (Clearly, I wasn’t the only one: on the fourth day of the mission, the Mars Pathfinder web site clocked 46 million hits.)

Shortly after the landing, I was telling some friends at the beach about the mission—gesturing vigorously as I always do when describing the rover’s movements across Mars—when one of them, Elizabeth Mann, said almost offhandedly, "Sounds like it would make a good book."

When I thought about it, the story of Sojourner contained many elements with child-appeal (even beyond the parallels to "The Little Engine That Could.")

Almost a year later I held "The Adventures of Sojourner." --This text refers to the Paperback edition.