Screen LibraryBeyond earth : our path to a new home in the planets /
From a planetary scientist and a science writer, this book is an account of the developments and initiatives that have transformed the dream of space colonization into something that may well be achievable. We are at the cusp of a golden age in space science, as increasingly more entrepreneurs -- El...
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Pantheon Books,
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| Publisher Address: | New York : |
| Publication Dates: | [2016] |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
| Edition: | First edition. |
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From a planetary scientist and a science writer, this book is an account of the developments and initiatives that have transformed the dream of space colonization into something that may well be achievable. We are at the cusp of a golden age in space science, as increasingly more entrepreneurs -- Elon Musk, Richard Branson, Jeff Bezos -- are seduced by the commercial potential of human access to space. But Beyond Earth does not offer another wide-eyed technology fantasy: instead, it is grounded not only in the human capacity for invention and the appeal of adventure but also in the bureaucratic, political, and scientific realities that present obstacles to space travel -- realities that have hampered NASA'S efforts ever since the Challenger disaster. In this book, Charles Wohlforth and Amanda R. Hendrix offer research and argue that not Mars, but Titan -- a moon of Saturn with a nitrogen atmosphere, a weather cycle, and an inexhaustible supply of cheap energy, where we will even be able to fly like birds in the minimal gravitational field -- offers the most realistic prospect of life without support from Earth. |
| Item Description: | Includes index. |
| Carrier Form: | viii, 311 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 25 cm |
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9780804197977 (hardback) : 0804197970 (hardback) 9780804197984 (ebook) 0804197989 (ebook) |
| Index Number: | TL790 |
| CLC: | V529 |
| Call Number: | V529/W846 |