Piers Bizony 
NASA Missions to Mars [PDF ebook] 
A Visual History of Our Quest to Explore the Red Planet

Gorgeously illustrated with NASA photography, the large-format (12 × 12 inches) NASA Missions to Mars examines everything from the first tentative steps toward the fourth planet to the 2021 landing of rover Perseverance and beyond.
Space exploration has always been about pushing boundaries, but perhaps the achievement which has most piqued a sense of possibility has been the exploration of Mars. Beginning with
Soviet and American flybys in the early 1960s that were part and parcel of the
Space Race , acclaimed space historian Piers Bizony continues through complete coverage of the
Viking 1 and 2 missions of 1975–1976 . Bizony also traces
NASA’s acclaimed rover program , describing the development, technologies, mission histories, and achievements of the rovers
Sojourner,
Opportunity,
Spirit, and
Curiosity—all on the 25th anniversary of their first landing.
This awe-inspiring book features:

• An engaging and complete history of Mars exploration


• A treasure trove of imagery from the NASA archives , including photos and cartography beamed home, artworks and concept drawings created during development phases, as well as photography created to document testing phases


• A glimpse of future plans for Mars exploration and habitation


• Coverage of orbiters sent to the red planet by not only NASA but by space agencies from Russia, India, Japan, Europe, China, and the UAE

Humankind’s fascination with Mars can be traced back to prewar science fiction. While the billions of dollars and ingenious innovations have allowed us incredible views from more than 51 million miles away, no less incredible are the insights these missions, hardware, and scientists have provided into our universe—and our own planet.
NASA Missions to Mars is your complete illustrated history of those efforts and
a necessary volume for the library of any space enthusiast !

Sobre el autor

Piers Bizony is the author of The Space Shuttle: Celebrating Thirty Years of NASA’s First Space Plane and One Giant Leap: Apollo 11 Remembered, both from Zenith Press. He has written about science, aerospace, and cosmology for a wide variety of magazines in the United Kingdom and the United States. His previous books include 2001: Filming the Future, The Rivers of Mars, Starman (a biography of Yuri Gagarin), and Space: 50, marking the fiftieth anniversary of Sputnik.