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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 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.
(With 8 pages of color illustrations)
- Charles Wohlforth - Author
- Amanda R. Hendrix, Ph.D. - Author
Kindle Book
- Release date: November 15, 2016
OverDrive Read
- ISBN: 9780804197984
- File size: 7482 KB
- Release date: November 15, 2016
EPUB ebook
- ISBN: 9780804197984
- File size: 7877 KB
- Release date: November 15, 2016
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