Lunar and Planetary Rovers: The Wheels of Apollo and the Quest for Mars (Springer Praxis Books)

Great read when thinking about rover design

I was looking for research from GMDRL (the LRV wheels - and many vehicle concepts) came from there. Not enough background (history) in the book.

Anthony Young's book on our wheels on other worlds is essential reading for anyone who wants truly to appreciate the challenges of exploring other worlds.

This book covers a couple of subjects, and covers them well.If the Apollo LRV is your thing, fine and dandy. Similarly, though briefly, the MERs. But if you expected a review of Lunar and Planetary Rovers, No.No US Surveyor Rover, no Project Prospector; no Soviet Mars rovers, even though one actually landed; just a passing mention of the Lunakhods. No mention of the long history of rover concepts, other than the US industrial ones. No thought of comet and asteroid jumpers, Titan or Venus. Viking 3? Forget it! And as for Viking Phobos... ...all missing.In short, you've got half a book here. If it was titled "Apollo LRV and MER Development" then fine; but it isn't, so it gets two stars, purely for the wildly wrong title. What were the editors at SP thinking of?Do a search for Phil Stooke's OU Lunar and Martian books - even in the margins, he covers the broad history to a far better degree.