Mars rover Curiosity
In Mars Rover Curiosity: An Inside Account from Curiosity's Chief Engineer, Rob Manning, the project's chief engineer, tells of bringing the groundbreaking spacecraft to life. Manning and his team at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, tasked with designing a lander many times larger and more complex than any before, faced technical setbacks, fights over inadequate resources, and the challenges of leading an army of brilliant, passionate, and often frustrated experts.
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- This guy? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gm0b_ijaYMQ&t=1h41m36s
That is Rob Manning, an absolute legend! Here is an interview with him from a few years back: https://solarsystem.nasa.gov/people/2280/rob-manning/
He also wrote this great book: https://www.amazon.com/Mars-Rover-Curiosity-Curiositys-Engin...
- All available for Kindle on Amazon:
== Case studies (US government) ==
T-6A TEXAN II Systems Engineering Case Study - Derivative of PC-9 Pilatus Aircraft - JPATS Program, Training System, Hawker Beechcraft History (World Spaceflight News, Air Force Institute of Technology, Air Force Center for Systems Engineering, Department of Defense (DoD), U.S. Military, U.S. Air Force (USAF) )
Theater Battle Management Core System Systems Engineering Case Study - History and Details of TBMCS Integrated Air Command and Control System (U.S. Military, Air Force (USAF), U.S. , of Technology, Air Force Institute , Spaceflight News, World , Defense (DoD), Department of , Systems Engineering, Air Force)
Global Positioning System (GPS) Systems Engineering Case Study - Technical Information and Program History of America's NAVSTAR Navigation Satellites (World Spaceflight News, Air Force Institute of Technology, Air Force Center for Systems Engineering, Department of Defense (DoD), U.S. Military, U.S. Air Force (USAF))
== Aeronautics ==
The History of the XV-15 Tilt Rotor Research Aircraft: From Concept to Flight - XV-3 Program, Stability Issues, Army and Navy Participation, VTOL, Flight Research Incidents and Crash, V-22 Osprey (U.S. Government, Space Administration (NASA), National Aeronautics and, Spaceflight News (WSN), World Spaceflight)
Bell X-1 (Peter E. Davies)
North American XB-70 Valkyrie (X-Planes Book 7) (Peter E. Davies)
Aviation Psychology: Practice and Research (Goeters, Klaus-Martin)
== Space ==
The Design and Engineering of Curiosity: How the Mars Rover Performs Its Job (Emily Lakdawalla)
The Right Kind of Crazy: A True Story of Teamwork, Leadership, and High-Stakes Innovation (Adam Steltzner, William Patrick)
Mars Rover Curiosity: An Inside Account from Curiosity's Chief Engineer (Rob Manning, William L. Simon)
Chasing New Horizons: Inside the Epic First Mission to Pluto (Alan Stern, David Grinspoon)
Digital Apollo: Human and Machine in Spaceflight (David A. Mindell)
The Interstellar Age: Inside the Forty-Year Voyager Mission (Jim Bell)
== Astronomy ==
The Perfect Machine: Building the Palomar Telescope (Ronald Florence)
== Process ==
The Checklist Manifesto: How to Get Things Right (Atul Gawande)
NASA Lessons Learned in Engineering: Marshall Engineers Recount Problems and Solutions on Saturn V Rocket, Apollo, Space Shuttle, SSME, Hubble Space Telescope, X-33, Other Vehicles and Systems (U.S. Government, Space Administration (NASA), National Aeronautics and, Spaceflight News (WSN))
== For myself ==
Why We Sleep: The New Science of Sleep and Dreams (Matthew Walker)
Merchants of Doubt: How a Handful of Scientists Obscured the Truth on Issues from Tobacco Smoke to Global Warming (Naomi Oreskes, Erik M. Conway)
== If you have children ==
The Self-Driven Child: The Science and Sense of Giving Your Kids More Control Over Their Lives (William Stixrud, Ned Johnson)
- In Rob Manning's book [0] : He explained how hard it is to land on Mars. It's nicely sum up in those two sentences :
“There’s too much atmosphere on Mars to land heavy vehicles like we do on the moon, using propulsive technology completely,” said Manning, “and there’s too little atmosphere to land like we do on Earth. So, it’s in this ugly, grey zone.” [1]
The recent success of Curiosity, Spirit and Opportunity must not shadow the fact that most Mars missions have failed.
[0] "Mars Rover Curiosity: An Inside Account from Curiosity's Chief Engineer
[1] http://www.universetoday.com/7024/the-mars-landing-approach-...
