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Interstellar travel
\"Interstellar Travel: Purpose and Motivations is a comprehensive, technical look at the necessary considerations for interstellar travel addressed by leading experts in the field, from scientists studying possible destinations (exoplanets) and the vast distances between, to those concerned with building institutions and capabilities in society that could sustain such endeavors. In addition to the technical, medical, and anthropological aspects of deep space travel, the ethics and morality of spreading Earth-based life to other worlds is also examined. In the first book of a three-book compilation, Interstellar Travel: Purpose and Motivations offers in-depth, up-to-date and realistic technical and scientific considerations in the pursuit of interstellar travel and is an integral reference for scientists, engineers, researchers and academics working on, or interested in, space development and space technologies. With a renewed interest in space exploration and development evidenced by the rise of the commercial space sector and various governments now planning to send humans back to the moon and to Mars, so also is interest in taking the next steps beyond the Solar System and to the ultimate destination--planets circling other stars.\"-- Provided by publisher.
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The Light of Earth
Apollo 15 command module pilot Al Worden was one of the
highest-profile personalities among the Apollo astronauts, renowned
for his outspokenness and potent views but also recognized as a
warm and well-liked person who devoted much of his life after
retiring from NASA to sharing his spaceflight experiences. Worden
had nearly finished writing this book before his passing in 2020 at
the age of eighty-eight. Coauthored with spaceflight historian
Francis French, The Light of Earth is Worden's
wide-ranging look at the greatest-ever scientific undertaking, in
which he was privileged to be a leading participant. Here Worden
gives readers his refreshingly candid opinions on the space
program, flying to the moon, and the people involved in the Apollo
and later shuttle programs, as well as sharing hard-hitting
reflections on the space shuttle program, the agonies and
extraordinary sights and delights of being a NASA Apollo astronaut,
and the space program's triumphs and failures. Worden delves into
areas of personal grief that reveal the noble and truly human side
of the space program's earliest years. He does not hold back when
discussing the shocking deaths of his fellow astronauts in the
three major tragedies that struck the space agency, nor does he shy
away from sharing his personal feelings about fellow Apollo
astronauts including Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin. Worden was
known as a charismatic speaker and one of the most thoughtful
Apollo astronauts. His candid, entertaining, and unique perspective
in The Light of Earth will captivate and surprise.
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Once upon a time I lived on Mars : space, exploration and life on earth
When it comes to Mars, the focus is often on how to get there: the rockets, the engines, the fuel. But upon arrival, what will it actually be like? In 2013, Kate Greene moved to Mars. That is, along with five fellow crew members, she embarked on NASA's first HI-SEAS mission, a simulated Martian environment located on the slopes of Mauna Loa in Hawai'i. For four months she lived, worked, and slept in an isolated geodesic dome, conducting a sleep study on her crew mates and gaining incredible insight into human behavior in tight quarters, as well as the nature of boredom, dreams, and isolation that arise amidst the promise of scientific progress and glory. In Once Upon a Time I Lived on Mars, Greene draws on her experience to contemplate humanity's broader impulse to explore. The result is a twined story of space and life, of the standard, able-bodied astronaut and Greene's brother's disability, of the lag time of interplanetary correspondences and the challenges of a long-distance marriage, of freeze-dried egg powder and fresh pineapple, of departure and return. By asking what kind of wisdom humanity might take to Mars and elsewhere in the Universe, Greene has written a remarkable, wide-ranging examination of our time in space right now, as a pre-Mars species, poised on the edge, readying for launch.
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Far Beyond the Moon
From the beginning of the space age, scientists and engineers have
worked on systems to help humans survive for the astounding 28,500
days (78 years) needed to reach another planet. They've imagined
and tried to create a little piece of Earth in a bubble travelling
through space, inside of which people could live for decades,
centuries, or even millennia. Far Beyond the Moon tells
the dramatic story of engineering efforts by astronauts and
scientists to create artificial habitats for humans in orbiting
space stations, as well as on journeys to Mars and beyond. Along
the way, David P. D. Munns and Kärin Nickelsen explore the often
unglamorous but very real problem posed by long-term life support:
How can we recycle biological wastes to create air, water, and even
food in meticulously controlled artificial environments? Together,
they draw attention to the unsung participants of the space
program-the sanitary engineers, nutritionists, plant physiologists,
bacteriologists, and algologists who created and tested artificial
environments for space based on chemical technologies of life
support-as well as the bioregenerative algae systems developed to
reuse waste, water, and nutrients, so that we might cope with a
space journey of not just a few days, but months, or more likely,
years.
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The Greatest Adventure
The space race was perhaps the greatest technological contest of the 20th century. It was a thrilling era of innovation, discovery and exploration, as astronauts and cosmonauts were launched on space missions of increasing length, complexity and danger. The Greatest Adventure traces the events of this extraordinary period, describing the initial string of Soviet achievements: the first satellite in orbit; the first animal, man and woman in space; the first spacewalk; as well as the ultimate US victory in the race to land on the moon. The book then takes the reader on a journey through the following decades of space exploration to the present time, detailing the many successes, tragedies, risks and rewards of space exploration.
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Space 2069 : after Apollo: back to the Moon, to Mars, and beyond
Half a century after Apollo 11 we have still not returned to the Moon, but that is about to change. The thirteenth person to walk on the Moon could soon be part of a crew establishing a base on the lip of a crater at the lunar south pole. The discovery of ice in the eternal shadows of the polar regions transforms our ability to live on the Moon. From bases on the Moon we can make the long, lonely and dangerous voyage to Mars, where there is also ice. The obstacles are many, not least the fragilities of the human body. And what type of world would the first Mars explorers find?
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Life in Space
A little-known yet critical part of NASA
history
Life in Space explores the many aspects and outcomes of
NASA's research in life sciences, a little-understood endeavor that
has often been overlooked in histories of the space agency. Maura
Mackowski details NASA's work in this field from spectacular
promises made during the Reagan era to the major new directions set
by George W. Bush's Vision for Space Exploration in the early
twenty-first century.
At the first flight of NASA's space shuttle in 1981, hopes ran
high for the shuttle program to achieve its potential of regularly
transporting humans, cargo, and scientific experiments between
Earth and the International Space Station. Mackowski describes
different programs, projects, and policies initiated across NASA
centers and headquarters in the following decades to advance
research into human safety and habitation, plant and animal
biology, and commercial biomaterials. Mackowski illuminates these
ventures in fascinating detail by drawing on rare archival sources,
oral histories, interviews, and site visits.
While highlighting significant achievements and innovations such as
space radiation research and the Neurolab Spacelab Mission,
Mackowski reveals frustrations-lost opportunities, stagnation, and
dead ends-stemming from frequent changes in presidential
administrations and policies. For today's dreams of lunar outposts
or long-term spaceflight to become reality, Mackowski argues, a
robust program in space life sciences is essential, and the history
in this book offers lessons to help prevent leaving more
expectations unfulfilled.
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Spacecare : a kid's guide to surviving space
\"Filled with answers from actual astronauts, Space Care is the perfect book for kids who dream of going to space! Have you ever wondered how astronauts stay healthy in space? What if an astronaut gets sick on the space station? Does snot run in space? This fascinating photo-illustrated look at space and medicine explores how scientists and physicians study astronauts in space, how they help keep them safe, and what we've learned about the human body through space exploration. Questions from real kids and answers from astronauts, along with photos from NASA, combine for an out-of-this-world exploration of health.\"
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Shattered Dreams
Shattered Dreamsdelves into the personal stories and recollections of several men and women who were in line to fly a specific or future space mission but lost that opportunity due to personal reasons, mission cancellations, or even tragedies. While some of the subjects are familiar names in spaceflight history, the accounts of others are told here for the first time. Colin Burgess features spaceflight candidates from the United States, Russia, Indonesia, Australia, and Great Britain.Shattered Dreamsbrings to new life such episodes and upheavals in spaceflight history as the saga of the three Apollo missions that were cancelled due to budgetary constraints and never flew; NASA astronaut Patricia Hilliard Robertson, who died of burn injuries after her airplane crashed before she had a chance to fly into space; and a female cosmonaut who might have become the first journalist to fly in space. Another NASA astronaut was preparing to fly an Apollo mission before he was diagnosed with a disqualifying illness. There is also the amazing story of the pilot who could have bailed out of his damaged aircraft but held off while heroically avoiding a populated area and later applied to NASA to fulfill his cherished dream of becoming an astronaut despite having lost both legs in the accident. These are the incredibly human stories of competitive realists fired with an unquenchable passion. Their accounts reveal in their own words-and those of others close to them-how their shared ambition would go awry through personal accidents, illness, theChallengerdisaster, death, or other circumstances.
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