[kabdib]

I recommend Henry S.F. Cooper's book _The Morning Star_, which is about debugging hardware failures and OS race conditions on a spacecraft orbiting Venus.

(There are similar stories about debugging stuff on the various Martian rovers, but Cooper's book is a very good treatment...).

[twistedpair]

It's actually "The Evening Star"

Grab it used for $0.75 http://product.half.ebay.com/The-Evening-Star-Venus-Observed...

[alphadevx]

I think you mean The Evening Star, marvelous book: http://amzn.to/1Hq8TcX

[kabdib]

I stand corrected. Written in haste.

Cooper is a wonderful writer, I've got all of his books :-)