Roving Mars : Spirit, Opportunity, and the Exploration of the Red Planet (Hardcover)

from Stbalbach

Steve Squyres was the Principal Investigator for the Spirit and Opportunity missions and this is his memoir of how the idea came into being, how they were designed and built, launched and mission on Mars for the first 150 days. It's fairly lively as his excitement bleeds over but lets face it, th...

from tsangal

Exciting account of the politics and engineering challenges to get Spirit and Opportunity to Mars, and what they found when they got there. And just like the team that worked on them, you even start to get attached to the two rovers.

from

The Lead PI of the Mars Rovers Spirit and Opportunity tells his story. Excellent book on the woolly world of government funded big science.

from shoomg

Fascinating account of the development of the Mars Exploration Rovers Spirit and Opportunity, and of the first part of their mission on Mars. The author is the principal investigator (the lead scientist) of the MER mission.

from romanccm

This is sort of about roving mars, but more about getting the rover TO mars- I can't say I was really all tha interested in NASA's politics when I picked this up but Squyres managed to hook me- was odd, I KNEW the rovers got there, but he somehow managed to make me doubt it. Enjoyable read anyhow.