Young Lunar and Planetary Rovers

The Wheels of Apollo and the Quest for Mars
1. Auflage 2007
ISBN: 978-0-387-68547-2
Verlag: Springer
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, 306 Seiten

Reihe: Space Exploration

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Young, Anthony

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1;Table of contents;7
2;Foreword;12
3;Author's Preface;15
4;Acknowledgements;17
5;List of Illustrations;19
6;From concept to reality;25
7;The Lunar Roving Vehicle subsystems;53
8;Training for the Moon;81
9;To the Hadley Plains;109
10;Mysterious and unknown Descartes;153
11;Destiny at Taurus-Littrow;187
12;The quest for Mars;233
13;The Vision for Space Exploration;277
14;Appendix 1: planetary rover missions;306
15;Appendix 2: The Lunokhods - Russia's marvelous robotic rovers;316
16;Bibliography;318
17;Index;324