Martian Summer
Author | Andrew Kessler |
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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
- ↑ http://www.mediabistro.com/galleycat/andrew-kessler-opens-monobookist-bookstore_b27920
- ↑ http://phoenix.lpl.arizona.edu/index.php
- ↑ http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/phoenix/news/phoenix-20080731.html
- ↑ http://www.togather.com
- ↑ http://www.npr.org/2011/04/16/135464282/a-writers-martian-summer-on-earth
- ↑ http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/04/29/us-bookstore-martian-idUSTRE73S7PL20110429
- ↑ http://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/04/28/a-bookstore-thats-book-singular/?hp
External links
- Official website
- Andrew Kessler on Twitter
- NASA Phoenix website
- UA Lunar and Planetary Laboratory homepage