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Beyond: Our Future in Space
Chris Impey
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Description for Beyond: Our Future in Space
Paperback. "Expansive and enlightening.. Impey packs his prose with wonderful anecdotes and weird factoids."-New York Times Book Review Num Pages: 336 pages, 55 illustrations. BIC Classification: WNX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 210 x 140. .
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
WW Norton & Co
Condition
New
Number of Pages
336
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780393352153
SKU
V9780393352153
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About Chris Impey
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.
Reviews for Beyond: Our Future in Space
"...Beyond is an irresistible, highly readable book."
Monica Grady - Times Higher Education "...an engagingly written and stimulating thesis."
Sky at Night "An astronomer and popular-science author, Impey makes an affable and generally even-handed guide to this fascinating subject, balancing rhetoric about humankind's restless curiosity with sober assessments of what is and is not possible."
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Monica Grady - Times Higher Education "...an engagingly written and stimulating thesis."
Sky at Night "An astronomer and popular-science author, Impey makes an affable and generally even-handed guide to this fascinating subject, balancing rhetoric about humankind's restless curiosity with sober assessments of what is and is not possible."
Physics World ... Read more