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Informationen zum Autor Stewart Lawrence Sinclair is a writer and journalist based in New York. He has been published in Guernica Magazine , Literary Hub, 3:AM Magazine , The Millions , Avidly: A Channel of the Los Angeles Review of Books , and the New Orleans Review , among others. He is the author of Juggling (2023) and is originally from Ventura, California. Klappentext 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 . Vorwort Explores the vehicles and robotic extensions of ourselves that we cast out into the solar system to photograph, probe, scan and drill our way into new understandings, or into harm's way in search and rescue missions here on earth, and questions what these objects say about our politics, our humanity, and our place in the universe. Zusammenfassung 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 and vision many equated with the space race.Fifty years later, that vision feels like a nostalgic fantasy, but the lunar rover’s legacy paved the way for Mars rovers like Sojourner, Curiosity, and Perseverance. 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 . Inhaltsverzeichnis PART I 1. Moonscapes 2. Author's Note 3. Moonbeams 4. Splendid Terror 5. California Stars 6. Autopia 7. Drive 8. Barriers 9. Alienation 10. Must Man Explore 11. Head-on Collisions Intermezzo 12. Moonwalkers PART II 13. Close Encounters 14. Vital Signs 15. Pathfinders 16. Sojourners 17. Mad Scientists 18. Ruins 19. Deniers 20. Lifeboats 21. Mentor 22. The Rover at the End of the World 23. Eulogy Acknowledgments Bibliography Index ...
