| Title: | Beyond Earth : our path to a new home in the planets / |
| Authors: | Charles P. Wohlforth, Author ; Amanda R. Hendrix, Author |
| Material Type: | eBook |
| Publisher: | [S.l.] : Pantheon Books, 2016 |
| Size: | 1 online resource (viii, 311 p.) / col. ill. |
| Bibliography note: | Includes index |
| Languages: | English |
| Class number: | RC1160 |
| Subjects: | Manned space flight ; Manned space flights--Psychological aspects ; Space flight--Physiological effect |
| Description: | From a leading planetary scientist and an award-winning science writer, a propulsive 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. In Beyond Earth, Charles Wohlforth and Amanda R.Hendrix offer groundbreaking research and argue persuasively 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 and thrilling prospect of life without support from Earth |
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