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    Cover of The Design and Engineering of Curiosity

    The Design and Engineering of Curiosity

    Emily Lakdawalla

    Design & UX
    Open LibraryAmazon
    Stats for nerds
    1recommend
    2mentions
    2people
    2018–2021years
    50% recommend50% neutral

    Mentions per year

    2018201920202021

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    1. jcurboJan 2021
      There's also this book by Emily Lakdawalla, "The Design and Engineering of Curiosity"

      https://www.amazon.com/Design-Engineering-Curiosity-Performs...

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    2. binarnospDec 2018
      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)

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