Space Rover
Series: Object Lessons;
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Product details:
- Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing (UK)
- Date of Publication 18 April 2024
- Number of Volumes Paperback
- ISBN 9781501399954
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages176 pages
- Size 166x126x22 mm
- Weight 168 g
- Language English 546
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Long description:
Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things.
In 1971, the first lunar rover arrived on the moon. The design became an icon of American ingenuity and the adventurous spirit and vision many equated with the space race.
Fifty years later, that vision feels like a nostalgic fantasy, but the lunar rover's legacy paved the way for Mars rovers like Sojourner, Curiosity, and Perseverance. Other rovers have made accessible the world's deepest caves and most remote tundra, extending our exploratory range without risking lives. Still others have been utilized for search and rescue missions or in clean up operations after disasters such as Chernobyl.
For all these achievements, rovers embody not just our potential, but our limits. Examining rovers as they wander our terrestrial and celestial boundaries, we might better comprehend our place, and fate, in this universe.
Object Lessons is published in partnership with an essay series in The Atlantic.
Table of Contents:
PART I
1. Moonscapes
2. Author's Note
3. Moonbeams
4. Splendid Terror
5. California Stars
6. Autopia
7. Drive
8. Barriers
9. Alienation
10. Must Man Explore
11. Head-on Collisions
Intermezzo
12. Moonwalkers
PART II
13. Close Encounters
14. Vital Signs
15. Pathfinders
16. Sojourners
17. Mad Scientists
18. Ruins
19. Deniers
20. Lifeboats
21. Mentor
22. The Rover at the End of the World
23. Eulogy
Acknowledgments
Bibliography
Index
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