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In the course of our enduring quest for knowledge aboutourselves and our universe, we haven't found answers to one of our mostfundamental questions: Does life exist anywhere else in the universe? Ten yearsand billions of dollars in the making, the Mars rover Curiosity is poised toanswer this all-important question.Here, Rob Manning, the project's chief engineer, tells ofbringing the groundbreaking spacecraft to life. Manning and his team at NASA'sJet Propulsion Laboratory, tasked with designing a lander many times larger andmore complex than any before, faced technical setbacks, fights over inadequateresources, and the challenges of leading an army of brilliant, passionate, andoften frustrated experts.Manning's fascinating personal account-which includesinformation from his exclusive interviews with leading Curiosity scientists-ispacked with tales of revolutionary feats of science, technology, andengineering. Listeners experience firsthand the disappointment at encounteringpersistent technical problems, the agony of near defeat, the sense of victoryat finding innovative solutions to these problems, the sheer terror of stakingcareers and reputations on a lander that couldn't be tested on Earth, and therush of triumph at its successful touchdown on Mars on August 5, 2012. This isthe story of persistence, dedication, and unrelenting curiosity.
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Rob Manning was chief engineer of the Mars Science Lab spacecraft project. With fifteen years at NASA's Jet Propulsion Lab working on space projects, he is a leading expert in guiding the creation of new spacecraft technology.
William L. Simon is the author of numerous books, including iCon: Steve Jobs and Ghost in the Wires, both New York Times and international bestsellers. He has also written for USA Today and the Washington Post and been interviewed on CNBC, CNN, NPR and by the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, BusinessWeek, Time, Newsweek, and many other publications.
Bronson Pinchot, Audible's Narrator of the Year for 2010, has won Publishers Weekly Listen-Up Awards, AudioFile Earphones Awards, Audible's Book of the Year Award, and Audie Awards for several audiobooks, including Matterhorn, Wise Blood, Occupied City, and The Learners. A magna cum laude graduate of Yale, he is an Emmy- and People's Choice-nominated veteran of movies, television, and Broadway and West End shows. His performance of Malvolio in Twelfth Night was named the highlight of the entire two-year Kennedy Center Shakespeare Festival by the Washington Post. He attended the acting programs at Shakespeare & Company and Circle-in-the-Square, logged in well over 200 episodes of television, starred or costarred in a bouquet of films, plays, musicals, and Shakespeare on Broadway and in London, and developed a passion for Greek revival architecture.
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Mars Rover Curiosity: An Inside Account from Curiosity's Chief Engineer
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Blackstone Audio, Inc., UNITED STATES, 2014
ISBN 10: 148302461X
ISBN 13: 9781483024615
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