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Shaping science : organizations, decisions, and culture on NASA's teams /

Janet Vertesi, Author | Chicago : The University of Chicago Press | Chicago scholarship online | 2021

"Shaping Science draws on a decade of immersive ethnography with NASA's robotic spacecraft teams to create a comparative account of two great space missions of the early 2000s. Although these missions appear to involve robotic explorers gatherin[...]

Seeing like a Rover : how robots, teams, and images craft knowledge of Mars /

Janet Vertesi, Author | Chicago : The University of Chicago Press | 2015

With Seeing Like a Rover, Janet Vertesi takes us behind the scenes to reveal the work that goes into creating our knowledge of Mars. Every photograph that the Rovers take, she shows, must be processed, manipulated, and interpreted--and all that[...]