EAN: 9781501399954

SPACE ROVER - STEWART LAWRENCE SINCLAIR TASCHEN...

Object Lessons is a series of short  beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of
ordinary things. In 1971  the first lunar rover arrived on the moon. The design became an icon
of American ingenuity and the adventurous spirit many equated with the space race. The lunar
roving vehicles (LRVs) would be the first and last manned rovers to date  but they provided a
vision of humanity's space-faring future: astronauts roaming the moon like space cowboys. Fifty
years later  that vision feels like a nostalgic fantasy  but the LRV's legacy would pave the
way for Mars rovers like Sojourner  Curiosity and Perseverance  who afforded humanity an
intimate portrait of our most tantalizingly (potentially) colonizable neighbor. Other rovers
have made accessible the world's deepest caves and most remote tundra  extending our
exploratory range without risking lives. Still others have been utilized for search and rescue
missions or in clean up operations after disasters such as Chernobyl. For all these
achievements  rovers embody not just our potential  but our limits. Examining rovers as they
wander our terrestrial and celestial boundaries  we might better comprehend our place  and fate
in this universe. Object Lessons is published in partnership with an essay series in The
Atlantic.

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