Beyond Earth: Our Path to a New Home in the Planets

By Amanda R Hendrix, Charles Wohlforth, Amanda R. Hendrix

Book Overview

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 , the authors 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--offers the most realistic, and thrilling, prospect of life without support from Earth.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0804172420
• ISBN13: 9780804172424
• Release Date: October 2017
• Publisher: Vintage
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 0.72 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.2" x 7.9"