Mankind beyond Earth : the history, science, and future of human space exploration / Claude A. Piantadosi.

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Piantadosi, Claude A

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: New York : Columbia University Press, c2012.Description: xv, 279 p. : illustrations, map ; 24 cmISBN:

9780231162432 (pbk.)
9780231162425 (pbk.)
9780231531030 (ebk.)

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DDC classification:

629.4500973 PIA 23 007579

LOC classification:

TL789.8.U5 P53 2012

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Table of contents

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: pt. 1 HINDSIGHT AND FORESIGHT 1.Men And Machines A House Divided Robot Days So Few Plausible Options 2.A Space Lexicon The Thin Blue Line The Science of Limits Genes and Adaptation Some Astronomical Concepts The Tortoise and the Hare 3.The Explorers People of Adventure Polar Science, Space Science The Hard-Shell Engineers The Space Doctors 4.Twentieth-Century Space The Early Days Project Apollo The Shuttle Disasters LEO and the Space Station 5.Back To The Moon Serene Selene Water, Water Everywhere It's Not Made of Green Cheese Extravehicular Activity The View from Earth pt. 2 A HOME AWAY FROM HOME 6.Living Off The Land Energy and Efficiency Ecological Footprints On Never Running Out of Air Water and Food 7.Round And Round It Goes . . . Where It Stops, Nobody Knows Recycling: Open or Closed, Hot or Cold? The CO2 Cycle Contents note continued: Making Room for the Jolly Green Giant Micronutrients 8.By Force Of Gravity Allometry Balance and Perception Bone and Muscle Weightlessness and the White Cell 9.The Cosmic Ray Dilemma The ABCs of Cosmic Rays The ALARA Principle Radiation's Effects Countermeasures 10.Tiny Bubbles Destination Mars Microbes in Space Gas Leaks The Age of the Astronaut On Biological Clocks pt. 3 WHERE ARE WE GOING? 11.The Case For Mars The Weather Forecast Surface Time Suits and Structures One-Way Trips 12.Big Planets, Dwarf Planets, And Small Bodies The Truth About Asteroids Oasis Ceres Titan and the Galileans Moons of the Ice Giants 13.New Stars, New Planets On Leaving the Solar System The Interstellar Medium Changing Ourselves Science Fact, Science Fiction.

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Includes bibliographical references (p. 251-268) and index.

Machine generated contents note: pt. 1 HINDSIGHT AND FORESIGHT
1.Men And Machines
A House Divided
Robot Days
So Few Plausible Options
2.A Space Lexicon
The Thin Blue Line
The Science of Limits
Genes and Adaptation
Some Astronomical Concepts
The Tortoise and the Hare
3.The Explorers
People of Adventure
Polar Science, Space Science
The Hard-Shell Engineers
The Space Doctors
4.Twentieth-Century Space
The Early Days
Project Apollo
The Shuttle Disasters
LEO and the Space Station
5.Back To The Moon
Serene Selene
Water, Water Everywhere
It's Not Made of Green Cheese
Extravehicular Activity
The View from Earth
pt. 2 A HOME AWAY FROM HOME
6.Living Off The Land
Energy and Efficiency
Ecological Footprints
On Never Running Out of Air
Water and Food
7.Round And Round It Goes . . . Where It Stops, Nobody Knows
Recycling: Open or Closed, Hot or Cold?
The CO2 Cycle
Contents note continued: Making Room for the Jolly Green Giant
Micronutrients
8.By Force Of Gravity
Allometry
Balance and Perception
Bone and Muscle
Weightlessness and the White Cell
9.The Cosmic Ray Dilemma
The ABCs of Cosmic Rays
The ALARA Principle
Radiation's Effects
Countermeasures
10.Tiny Bubbles
Destination Mars
Microbes in Space
Gas Leaks
The Age of the Astronaut
On Biological Clocks
pt. 3 WHERE ARE WE GOING?
11.The Case For Mars
The Weather Forecast
Surface Time
Suits and Structures
One-Way Trips
12.Big Planets, Dwarf Planets, And Small Bodies
The Truth About Asteroids
Oasis Ceres
Titan and the Galileans
Moons of the Ice Giants
13.New Stars, New Planets
On Leaving the Solar System
The Interstellar Medium
Changing Ourselves
Science Fact, Science Fiction.

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