Martian Summer

Martian Summer: Robot Arms, Cowboy Spacemen, and My 90 Days with the Phoenix Mars Mission
Author Andrew Kessler
Country United States
Language English
Genre Non-fiction
Publisher Pegasus Books
Publication date
 15 April 2011
Media type Book
Pages 341
ISBN 978-1-60598-176-5

Martian Summer: Robot Arms, Cowboy Spacemen, and My 90 Days with the Phoenix Mars Mission is a book written by Andrew Kessler.[1] The book documents Andrew Kessler's three-month stint in mission control of the NASA Phoenix expedition, led by Peter Smith and based at the Lunar and Planetary Laboratory of the University of Arizona.[2] The mission attempted (successfully) to locate evidence of water on Mars.[3]

Andrew Kessler is the Founder and CEO of Togather.com, an event marketing platform based in DUMBO.[4] Formerly a Creative Director at HUGE, he co-produced Mars: The Quest for Life on the Discovery Channel and holds a degree in Mathematics from the University of California, Berkeley. Kessler is currently based in Brooklyn, NY.[5]

Monobookist Bookstore

To celebrate the launch of his book, Andrew Kessler opened a pop-up store in the West Village of Manhattan. Inside, the shelves were stocked with more than 3000 copies of Martian Summer.[6] Kessler described the project as a "Monobookist Bookstore".[7]

References

  1. ↑ http://www.mediabistro.com/galleycat/andrew-kessler-opens-monobookist-bookstore_b27920
  2. ↑ http://phoenix.lpl.arizona.edu/index.php
  3. ↑ http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/phoenix/news/phoenix-20080731.html
  4. ↑ http://www.togather.com
  5. ↑ http://www.npr.org/2011/04/16/135464282/a-writers-martian-summer-on-earth
  6. ↑ http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/04/29/us-bookstore-martian-idUSTRE73S7PL20110429
  7. ↑ http://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/04/28/a-bookstore-thats-book-singular/?hp


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