LEADER 03104nam 22004573 450 001 9910148640603321 005 20230808200217.0 010 $a0-8041-9798-9 035 $a(CKB)3710000000921441 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC6040509 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL6040509 035 $a(OCoLC)1156000871 035 $a(BIP)54649963 035 $a(BIP)54645082 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000000921441 100 $a20210901d2016 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aBeyond Earth $eOur Path to a New Home in the Planets 210 1$aWestminster :$cKnopf Doubleday Publishing Group,$d2016. 210 4$dİ2016. 215 $a1 online resource (287 pages) 311 08$a0-8041-9797-0 327 $aIntro -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- Dedication -- Introduction: The Way Off the Earth -- Chapter 1: How to Predict the Future -- Chapter 2: The Inner Solar System and the Problem with NASA -- Chapter 3: A Home in the Outer Solar System -- Chapter 4: Building a Rocket Quickly -- Chapter 5: The Health Barrier to Deep Space -- Chapter 6: Robots in Space -- Chapter 7: Solutions for Long Journeys -- Chapter 8: The Psychology of Space Travel -- Chapter 9: Who Gets to Go? -- Chapter 10: Why Move into Space? -- Chapter 11: Settling a Frontier -- Chapter 12: The Step After Next -- Acknowledgments -- About the Authors -- Illustrations. 330 $aFrom 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. 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)  606 $aSpace flight 607 $aTitan (Satellite)$xColonization 615 0$aSpace flight. 676 $a629.45/5 700 $aWohlforth$b Charles$01128129 701 $aHendrix$b Amanda R$01246626 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910148640603321 996 $aBeyond Earth$92890355 997 $aUNINA