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Martian Summer: Robot Arms, Cowboy Spacemen, and My 90 Days with the Phoenix Mars Mission
AuthorAndrew Kessler
LanguageEnglish
GenreNon-fiction
PublisherPegasus Books
Publication date15 April 2011
Publication placeUnited States
Media typeBook
Pages341
ISBN978-1-60598-176-5

Martian Summer: Robot Arms, Cowboy Spacemen, and My 90 Days with the Phoenix Mars Mission is a book written by Andrew Kessler. 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. The mission attempted (successfully) to locate evidence of water on Mars.

Andrew Kessler is the founder and CEO of Togather.com, an event marketing platform based in DUMBO. 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.

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. Kessler described the project as a "Monobookist Bookstore".

References

  1. "Creative Jobs :: Careers for Graphic Designers, Copywriters, Social Media Managers, Proof Readers and More".
  2. "Mission Involvement".
  3. NASA.gov
  4. http://www.togather.com Archived 2001-04-10 at the Wayback Machine
  5. "A Writer's 'Martian Summer' on Earth". NPR.org.
  6. "New York bookstore stocks only one book". Reuters. 29 April 2011. Archived from the original on 2016-03-05.
  7. "A Book Store. That's Right. Book, Singular". 28 April 2011.

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