Beyond : our future in space / Chris Impey.
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TextPublisher: New York, N.Y. : W.W. Norton & Company, [2015]Edition: First editionDescription: xii, 321 pages : illustrations, map ; 25 cmContent type: - text
- unmediated
- volume
- 0393239306 (hardcover)
- 9780393239300 (hardcover) :
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Dr. James Carlson Library | NonFiction | 629.4011 I34 | Available | 33111008193431 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
With plans to launch hotels into orbit and experiments in suspending and reanimating life for ultra-long-distance travel, private companies and entrepreneurs have outpaced NASA as the leaders in the new space race. With accessible prose and relentless curiosity, Chris Impey reports on China's plan to launch its own space station by 2020, proves that humans could survive on Mars and unveils cutting-edge innovations such as the space elevators poised to replace rockets at a fraction of the cost. Setting mankind's urge towards exploration in the context of all human history and space travel thus far, he shows that the present-day scientists mapping billions of Earth-like exo-planets are the descendants of the first humans to venture out of Africa. We must forge ahead, argues Beyond, because exploration is in our DNA.
Includes bibliographical references (pages [265]-294) and index.
Prelude. Dreaming of beyond ; Rockets and bombs ; Send in the robots -- Present. Revolution is coming ; Meet the entrepreneurs ; Beyond the horizon ; A plethora of planets -- Future. The next space race ; Our next home ; Remote sensing ; Living off-Earth -- Beyond. Journey to the stars ; Cosmic companionship ; A universe made for us.
A report on humanity's imminent potential for living in space covers topics ranging from China's 2020 space station and the colonization of Mars to space-elevator innovations and the mapping of Earth-like exo-planets.