New Space Frontiers: Venturing into Earth Orbit and Beyond - Couverture rigide

Bizony, Piers

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0760346666 ISBN 13 : 9780760346662

Editeur : Zenith Press, 2014

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur :

Take a journey into the New Space Frontier!

It is easy to imagine that the space shuttle s retirement has edged the Space Age toward closure, at least in terms of human flight beyond the bounds of earth. In fact, there are more people-carrying ships being constructed now than at any time since Yuri Gagarin became the first man in space half a century ago. Some are already servicing the International Space Station which, incidentally, has ensured a permanent human presence in space for the last two decades, and is set to continue and expand for decades yet to come.

What s more, NASA is no longer the only big player in the space game. Commercial, non-governmental space exploration is becoming a reality rather than just a pipe dream. What orbital adventures await us in the next five decades? Will humans ever again head into deep space, as the Apollo astronauts once did? NASA s new hardware is aimed toward asteroid missions, and ultimately, Mars, but there is a significant chance that a government funded space agency will not be the only or even the first organization to send humans across the solar system.

Get ready to experience the excitement of adventure with New Space Frontier. Through gorgeous photography and engaging writing, noted space and science author Piers Bizony speculates beyond just today s hardware and explores what might be possible for the next generation.

Biographie de l'auteur :

PIERS BIZONY has written about science, aerospace, and cosmology for a wide variety of magazines in the UK and the US. His previous books include 2001: Filming the Future, The Rivers of Mars (shortlisted for the NASA/Eugene M. Emme Award for Astronautical Writing), Starman (a biography of Yuri Gagarin, also a BBC TV program) and Space: 50, a collaboration with the Smithsonian Institution, marking the 50th anniversary of Sputnik. His latest project, Atom, ties-in with a major BBC TV series on the discovery of quantum physics. His most recent book is One Giant Leap, a celebration of the Apollo 11 moon landing

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Zenith Press
• Date d'édition: 2014
• ISBN 10: 0760346666
• ISBN 13: 9780760346662
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 176