Lunar And Planetary Rovers

Author : Anthony Young
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 0387685472
Total Pages : 393 pages
Book Rating : 4.72/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Lunar and Planetary Rovers written by Anthony Young and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2007-07-05 with total page 393 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : Anthony Young
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 9780387511283
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.88/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Lunar and Planetary Rovers written by Anthony Young and published by Springer. This book was released on 2008-11-01 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : Alex Ellery
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3642032591
Total Pages : 702 pages
Book Rating : 4.92/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Planetary Rovers written by Alex Ellery and published by Springer. This book was released on 2015-12-30 with total page 702 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This will be the only book on planetary rover development covering all aspects relevant to the design of systems

Author : Earl Swift
Publisher : HarperCollins
ISBN 13 : 0062986554
Total Pages : 466 pages
Book Rating : 4.59/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Across the Airless Wilds written by Earl Swift and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2021-07-06 with total page 466 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "THRILLING. ... Up-end[s] the Apollo narrative entirely." —The Times (London) A "brilliantly observed" (Newsweek) and "endlessly fascinating" (WSJ) rediscovery of the final Apollo moon landings, revealing why these extraordinary yet overshadowed missions—distinguished by the use of the revolutionary lunar roving vehicle—deserve to be celebrated as the pinnacle of human adventure and exploration. One of The Wall Street Journal's 10 Best Books of the Month 8:36 P.M. EST, December 12, 1972: Apollo 17 astronauts Gene Cernan and Jack Schmitt braked to a stop alongside Nansen Crater, keenly aware that they were far, far from home. They had flown nearly a quarter-million miles to the man in the moon’s left eye, landed at its edge, and then driven five miles in to this desolate, boulder-strewn landscape. As they gathered samples, they strode at the outermost edge of mankind’s travels. This place, this moment, marked the extreme of exploration for a species born to wander. A few feet away sat the machine that made the achievement possible: an electric go-cart that folded like a business letter, weighed less than eighty pounds in the moon’s reduced gravity, and muscled its way up mountains, around craters, and over undulating plains on America’s last three ventures to the lunar surface. In the decades since, the exploits of the astronauts on those final expeditions have dimmed in the shadow cast by the first moon landing. But Apollo 11 was but a prelude to what came later: while Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin trod a sliver of flat lunar desert smaller than a football field, Apollos 15, 16, and 17 each commanded a mountainous area the size of Manhattan. All told, their crews traveled fifty-six miles, and brought deep science and a far more swashbuckling style of exploration to the moon. And they triumphed for one very American reason: they drove. In this fast-moving history of the rover and the adventures it ignited, Earl Swift puts the reader alongside the men who dreamed of driving on the moon and designed and built the vehicle, troubleshot its flaws, and drove it on the moon’s surface. Finally shining a deserved spotlight on these overlooked characters and the missions they created, Across the Airless Wilds is a celebration of human genius, perseverance, and daring.

Author : National Aeronaut Administration (Nasa)
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN 13 : 9781722692537
Total Pages : 74 pages
Book Rating : 4.37/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Planetary Surface Exploration written by National Aeronaut Administration (Nasa) and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2018-07-10 with total page 74 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Planetary surface exploration micro-rovers for collecting data about the Moon and Mars was designed by the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Idaho. The goal of both projects was to design a rover concept that best satisfied the project objectives for NASA-Ames. A second goal was to facilitate student learning about the process of design. The first micro-rover is a deployment mechanism for the Mars Environmental SURvey (MESUR) Alpha Particle/Proton/X-ray instruments (APX). The system is to be launched with the sixteen MESUR landers around the turn of the century. A Tubular Deployment System and a spiked-legged walker was developed to deploy the APX from the lander to the Martian surface. While on Mars the walker is designed to take the APX to rocks to obtain elemental composition data of the surface. The second micro-rover is an autonomous, roving vehicle to transport a sensor package over the surface of the moon. The vehicle must negotiate the lunar-terrain for a minimum of one year by surviving impacts and withstanding the environmental extremes. The rover is a reliable track-driven unit that operates regardless of orientation which NASA can use for future lunar exploratory missions. A detailed description of the designs, methods, and procedures which the University of Idaho design teams followed to arrive at the final designs are included. Stauffer, Larry and Dilorenzo, Matt and Austin, Dave and Ayers, Raymond and Burton, David and Gaylord, Joe and Kennedy, Jim and Lentz, Dale and Laux, Richard and Nance, Preston Unspecified Center...

Author : Ranjan Vepa
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108422845
Total Pages : 371 pages
Book Rating : 4.40/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Dynamics and Control of Autonomous Space Vehicles and Robotics written by Ranjan Vepa and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2019-05-02 with total page 371 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents the established principles underpinning space robotics with a thorough and modern approach. This text is perfect for professionals in the field looking to gain an understanding of real-life applications of manipulators on satellites, and of the dynamics of satellites carrying robotic manipulators and of planetary rovers.

Author : R. Launius
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137273178
Total Pages : 390 pages
Book Rating : 4.78/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Exploring the Solar System written by R. Launius and published by Springer. This book was released on 2012-12-28 with total page 390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Beginning in the early days of the Space Age - well before the advent of manned spaceflight - the United States, followed soon by other nations, undertook an ambitious effort to study the planets of the solar system. The remarkable fruits of this research revolutionized the public's view of their celestial neighbors, capturing the imaginations of people from all backgrounds like nothing else save the Apollo lunar missions. From the first space probes to the most recent planetary rovers, they have continually delivered impressive discoveries and reshaped our understanding of the cosmos. Offering fascinating investigations into this crucial chapter in space history, this collection of specially commissioned essays from leading historians opens new vistas in our understanding of the development of planetary science.

Author : Grant Heiken
Publisher : CUP Archive
ISBN 13 : 9780521334440
Total Pages : 796 pages
Book Rating : 4.46/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Lunar Sourcebook written by Grant Heiken and published by CUP Archive. This book was released on 1991-04-26 with total page 796 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The only work to date to collect data gathered during the American and Soviet missions in an accessible and complete reference of current scientific and technical information about the Moon.

Author : P.J. Capelotti
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 0786459948
Total Pages : 201 pages
Book Rating : 4.40/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Human Archaeology of Space written by P.J. Capelotti and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2014-01-10 with total page 201 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A catalog of archaeological artifacts that have been left behind in space as a result of human exploration, this work describes the remnants of lost satellites, discarded lunar rovers, depleted rockets, and various abandoned spacecraft. The book is divided into three parts covering distinct but interconnected issues of lunar, planetary, and interstellar archaeology. In Parts I and II, individual chapters cover each space mission and provide technical notes, and, in some cases, images of the artifacts. Part III explores the archaeology of mobile artifacts in the solar system and the wider galaxy, looking particularly at the problems encountered in attempting a traditional archaeological field survey of artifacts that may remain in motion indefinitely.

Author : National Research Council
Publisher : National Academies Press
ISBN 13 : 0309038855
Total Pages : 122 pages
Book Rating : 4.50/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Planetary and Lunar Exploration written by National Research Council and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 1988-02-01 with total page 122 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: