Space, The Final Frontier

Informationen zum Autor Aeronautical and aerospace engineer based at the Technical University of Turin, Italy. Visiting Professor at the International Space University in Strasbourg, France, and at De Montfort University in Leicester, UK. Klappentext Discusses the opportunities and methods for the exploration and exploitation of space by human beings. Zusammenfassung What are our motivations for space exploration? Why should we strive to reach! if not the stars! at least the Moon and Mars? What are the greatest advantages of space to the human species? This thought provoking book will appeal to anyone interested in the future of space exploration. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction; 1. Space today; 2. The gateway to space; 3. Cities and factories in space?; 4. Robots in the solar system; 5. Back to the Moon; 6. Mars, the Red Planet; 7. Exploitation of the solar system; 8. Beyond the pillars of Hercules; 9. Other lives, other civilisations; 10. Towards a galactic civilisation; Appendices.

Product details

• Authors: G Genta, Giancarlo Genta, Genta Giancarlo, Franco Malerba, M Rycroft, Michael Rycroft, Michael J. Rycroft, Rycroft Michael
• Assisted by: Michael Foale (Foreword), Malerba Franco (Foreword)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 13.02.2003
• EAN: 9780521814034
• ISBN: 978-0-521-81403-4
• Dimensions: 158 mm x 235 mm x 20 mm
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > General, dictionaries; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Physics, astronomy > Astronomy; popular science, SCIENCE / General, NATURE / Sky Observation, Popular astronomy & space, Popular astronomy and space