Space Rover

Häftad, Engelska, 2024

AvStewart Lawrence Sinclair,Ian Bogost,Christopher Schaberg

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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.

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Utgivningsdatum2024-04-18
Mått126 x 166 x 22 mm
Vikt168 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
SerieObject Lessons
Antal sidor176
FörlagBloomsbury Publishing Plc
ISBN9781501399954

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PART I1. Moonscapes 2. Author’s Note 3. Moonbeams 4. Splendid Terror 5. California Stars 6. Autopia7. Drive 8. Barriers 9. Alienation 10. Must Man Explore 11. Head-on Collisions Intermezzo12. Moonwalkers PART II13. Close Encounters 14. Vital Signs 15. Pathfinders 16. Sojourners 17. Mad Scientists 18. Ruins 19. Deniers 20. Lifeboats21. Mentor 22. The Rover at the End of the World 23. Eulogy AcknowledgmentsBibliographyIndex

Moving nimbly from the moon to Mars, from the depths of the Atlantic to a nuclear reactor, Stewart Lawrence Sinclair artfully traces a history of amazing mechanical rovers through the Cold War, the Chernobyl disaster, the 9/11 attack, and his own upbringing near NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory. Instigated by the discovery of old photos after a devastating wildfire, Space Rover clears an astutely unpredictable and philosophical path from Sinclair’s boyhood in Southern California through a rich cultural history of mechanical wanderers. Space Rover is an auspicious call for – and at times, a solemn caution against – wandering. What a thought-provoking exploration of the purposeful meandering that humans and their mechanized, roving proxies do!