Zara Mirmalek - Making Time on Mars

A multitude of people, institutions and technologies energized the construction of this book. Given the nature of ethnographic research methods, not all can be acknowledged explicitly by name. They are appreciated privately. Thank you to all of the members of NASAs MER mission 20032004.

This work has benefited from questions, comments, silences and challenges from many audiences and individuals. Many thanks to the institutions and individuals that provided forms of access and inspiration, including: the University of California San Diego (UCSD), Leigh Star, Valerie Hartouni, Yrj Engestrm, Edwin Hutchins, Chandra Mukerji, Robert Horwitz, Sharon Traweek (UCLA), Carol Padden, Michael Cole, Katie Vann; the UCSD Science Studies Program, Geoffrey Bowker, Andrew Lakoff, Steven Shapin, Naomi Oreskes, Steve Epstein, Martha Lampland, Miriam Padolsky, Katrina Hoch, Kathleen Casey, Matthew Shindell, Sophia Efstathiou; the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Science Technology and Society Program, Teasel Muir-Harmony, Lisa Messeri, David Mindell, Leo Marx, Yanni Loukissas, Tim Cullen, Lisa DAmbrosio; Harvard University, Program on Science, Technology and Society, Sheila Jasanoff; NASA Ames, John ONeill, Mike Shafto, Roxana Wales, Valerie Shalin, William Clancey, Charlotte Linde, Chin Seah, Jay Trimble, Kanna Rajan; the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Deborah Bass, John Callas, the Athena science team, Steve Squyres, Andy Mishkin; and, the MIT Press, Katie Helke, Wiebe Bijker, Bernard Carlson, Trevor Pinch, Judith Feldmann, and this books production team and reviewers. I would like to thank and acknowledge conference and workshop audiences, and individuals, including the Society of the Social Study of Science, the National Communication Association (NCA), the NCA Association for Rhetoric in Science and Technology, the Standing Conference on Organizational Symbolism, the International Society for the Study of Time, the American Anthropological Association, the MIT Museum, Willow Garage, and Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute; Olga Hasty, Dawna Ballard, Ida Sabelis, Frederick Turner, Leila Takayama, Shana Ashar, Carol Pfeifer, Naj Abroni, Talat Bahrami, Carol Robideau, Ameh Zari, Mina and M. R. Mirmalek, Ida Stiffarm, Veda Mirmalek, Aaron Mirmalek, Leonard Peltier, RJ, DH, MK, FD, JC, Matt Chavez, Veronica Marquez, and Timothy Denehy.

One final group I must acknowledge is the technology on which I relied during MER: spiral-bound three-subject notebooks modified with foam board backing, 1.7mm ballpoint pens, highlighters, two laptops, software, printer, two cameras, and sticky notes.