Sojourner: An Insider's View of the Mars Pathfinder Mission

The Solar System and Mars Preface Prologue Part 1: LAYING THE GROUNDWORK 1. Doing What's Never Been Done 2. "Almost As Good As a Bogie" 3. Off-roading with No One at the Wheel 4. The Right Place at the Right Time 5. The Big Rover That Never Would 6. The Little Rover That Could Part 2: PATHFINDER 7. A Small Enough Team to Do the Job 8. The Rover War 9. A Design That Really Works 10. Three Rovers 11. Seeing and Believing 12. Two Spacecraft 13. Trial by Centrifuge 14. Can We Talk? 15. The Noise That Wouldn't Die 16. Soul of Sojourner 17. License to Driver 18. Meteorites, Life, and Job Security Part 3: GOING TO MARS 19. Even a Journey of a Thousand Miles 20. Cruisin' 21. So What Are You Going to Do for the Next Six Months? 22. Testing, Testing... 23. Moments of Truth 24. Living on Mars Time 25. Will Build Spacecraft for Food Epilogue Glossary Dramatis Personae Acknowledgments Index Photographic Credits