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

Charles Wohlforth, Amanda R. Hendrix, Ph.D.

ISBN 10: 0804172420 / ISBN 13: 9780804172424

Published by Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 2017

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Beyond Earth: Our Path to a New Home in the Planets
• Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
• Publication Date: 2017
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0804172420
• ISBN 13: 9780804172424
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: Very Good

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Synopsis

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.

About the Author

Charles Wohlforth is the author of more than ten previous books. He writes a column for Alaska Dispatch News, hosts a weekly interview program for public radio stations in Alaska (where he lives), and is winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Science and Technology, among many other awards.
 
Amanda R. Hendrix, Ph.D., a planetary scientist, worked for twelve years at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory. She has been a scientific investigator on the Galileo and Lunar Reconnaissance missions, a principal investigator on NASA research and Hubble Space Telescope observing programs, and the author of many scientific papers. As an investigator on the Cassini mission to Saturn, she has focused her research on the moons of Saturn.