Beyond
Our Future in Space
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 mapp…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-0-393-23930-0
- EAN: 9780393239300
- Produktnummer: 16428633
- Verlag: WW Norton & Co
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2015
- Seitenangabe: 336 S.
- Masse: H24.7 cm x B17.0 cm x D3.1 cm 606 g
- Abbildungen: 55 illustrations
- Gewicht: 606
- Sonstiges: Professional & Vocational
Über den Autor
Chris Impey is a distinguished professor in the Department of Astronomy at the University of Arizona and the critically-acclaimed author of Beyond, How It Began, and How It Ends, and four other books, as well as two astronomy textbooks. He lives in Tucson, Arizona.
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