Item #013978 Sojourner: An Insider's View of the Mars Pathfinder Mission. Andrew Mishkin.
Sojourner: An Insider's View of the Mars Pathfinder Mission

Sojourner: An Insider's View of the Mars Pathfinder Mission

New York: Berkley, 2003. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover with Dust Jacket.

No Flaws or Blemishes but minimal shelf handling. Illustrated; index.

Fine / Fine. Item #013978
ISBN: 0425191990

Now, with the touch of an expert thriller writer, Sojourner operations team leader Andrew Mishkin tells the inside, human story of the Mars Pathfinder mission's feverish efforts to build a self-guided, offroading robot to explore the surface of the Red Planet.

With witty, compelling anecdotes, he describes the clash of temperamental geniuses, the invention of a new work ethic, the turf wars, the chewing-gum solutions to high-tech problems, the controlled chaos behind the strangely beautiful creation of an artificial intelligence-and the exhilaration of inaugurating the next great age of space exploration.

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