Exploration and engineering : the Jet Propulsion Laboratory and the quest for Mars

Exploration and engineering : the Jet Propulsion Laboratory and the quest for Mars /

Although the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, has become synonymous with the United States' planetary exploration during the past half century, its most recent focus has been on Mars. Beginning in the 1990s and continuing through the Mars Phoenix mission of 2007, JPL led the w...

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Main Author: Conway, Erik M., 1965- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2015
Series:New series in NASA history.
Subjects:
Jet Propulsion Laboratory (U.S.)
Space flight to Mars.
Mars (Planet) > Exploration.
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