Why Mars: NASA and the Politics of Space Exploration

by W. Henry Lambright

Traces NASA's torturous journey to Mars from the fly-bys of the 1960s to landing rovers and seeking life today.

Mars has captured the human imagination for decades. Since NASA's establishment in 1958, the space agency has looked to Mars as a compelling prize, the one place, beyond the Moon, where robotic and human exploration could converge. Remarkably successful with its roaming multi-billion-dollar robot, Curiosity, NASA's Mars program...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1421412799
• ISBN13: 9781421412795
• Release Date: June 2014
• Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 0.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.2" x 9.1"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher