Speaking Beyond Earth

Author : Paul E. Quast
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 1476649863
Total Pages : 307 pages
Book Rating : 4.63/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Speaking Beyond Earth written by Paul E. Quast and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2024-04-03 with total page 307 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since the dawn of the Space Age, small cohorts of humanity have broadcast signals towards other stars, fabricated "space-time capsules" to "speak for Earth" aboard interstellar probes, deposited collections of "space oddities" on other astronomical bodies, and permanently incised the memory of our species across the deep-time legacy of the Sol System. Many of these purposeful "messages" are the consequence of age-old behaviors, traditions, and material practices using modern aerospace technologies. Most attempt to preserve narratives of human experience in social exchange devices for imagined, exotic audiences. Looking back upon this accumulative history of "messaging from Earth", how do we begin to interpret such an eclectic portrait of Earth for ourselves? Surveying and cataloguing the variety of these artifacts through a series of interdisciplinary essays and visual documentation, this volume chronicles our changing relationships, customs, and assumptions made within this material culture for our own eyes. What do these autobiographical accounts tell us about Terrans and our minds, set against the backdrop of our planetary history?

Author : Asif A. Siddiqi
Publisher : National Aeronautis & Space Administration
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 396 pages
Book Rating : 4.63/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Beyond Earth written by Asif A. Siddiqi and published by National Aeronautis & Space Administration. This book was released on 2018 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a completely updated and revised version of a monograph published in 2002 by the NASA History Office under the original title Deep Space Chronicle: A Chronology of Deep Space and Planetary Probes, 1958-2000. This new edition not only adds all events in robotic deep space exploration after 2000 and up to the end of 2016, but it also completely corrects and updates all accounts of missions from 1958 to 2000--Provided by publisher.

Author : Paul E. Quast
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 1476690006
Total Pages : 307 pages
Book Rating : 4.01/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Speaking Beyond Earth written by Paul E. Quast and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2024-04-03 with total page 307 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since the dawn of the Space Age, small cohorts of humanity have broadcast signals towards other stars, fabricated "space-time capsules" to "speak for Earth" aboard interstellar probes, deposited collections of "space oddities" on other astronomical bodies, and permanently incised the memory of our species across the deep-time legacy of the Sol System. Many of these purposeful "messages" are the consequence of age-old behaviors, traditions, and material practices using modern aerospace technologies. Most attempt to preserve narratives of human experience in social exchange devices for imagined, exotic audiences. Looking back upon this accumulative history of "messaging from Earth", how do we begin to interpret such an eclectic portrait of Earth for ourselves? Surveying and cataloguing the variety of these artifacts through a series of interdisciplinary essays and visual documentation, this volume chronicles our changing relationships, customs, and assumptions made within this material culture for our own eyes. What do these autobiographical accounts tell us about Terrans and our minds, set against the backdrop of our planetary history?

Author : Charles Wohlforth
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0804172420
Total Pages : 338 pages
Book Rating : 4.24/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Beyond Earth written by Charles Wohlforth and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2017-10-17 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : Richard Berendzen
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 120 pages
Book Rating : 4.18/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Life Beyond Earth & the Mind of Man written by Richard Berendzen and published by . This book was released on 1973 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Al Worden
Publisher : Smithsonian Institution
ISBN 13 : 1588343332
Total Pages : 314 pages
Book Rating : 4.38/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Falling to Earth written by Al Worden and published by Smithsonian Institution. This book was released on 2012-07-24 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As command module pilot for the Apollo 15 mission to the moon in 1971, Al Worden flew on what is widely regarded as the greatest exploration mission that humans have ever attempted. He spent six days orbiting the moon, including three days completely alone, the most isolated human in existence. During the return from the moon to earth he also conducted the first spacewalk in deep space, becoming the first human ever to see both the entire earth and moon simply by turning his head. The Apollo 15 flight capped an already-impressive career as an astronaut, including important work on the pioneering Apollo 9 and Apollo 12 missions, as well as the perilous flight of Apollo 13. Nine months after his return from the moon, Worden received a phone call telling him he was fired and ordering him out of his office by the end of the week. He refused to leave. What happened in those nine months, from being honored with parades and meetings with world leaders to being unceremoniously fired, has been a source of much speculation for four decades. Worden has never before told the full story around the dramatic events that shook NASA and ended his spaceflight career. Readers will learn them here for the first time, along with the exhilarating account of what it is like to journey to the moon and back. It's an unprecedentedly candid account of what it was like to be an Apollo astronaut, with all its glory but also its pitfalls.

Author : Raymond Hickey
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1009229257
Total Pages : 697 pages
Book Rating : 4.58/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Life and Language Beyond Earth written by Raymond Hickey and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2023-09-21 with total page 697 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Are we alone in the universe? If other lifeforms exist, how might their languages have evolved? Could we ever understand them, even learn their languages? This highly original, thought-provoking book explores how human life evolved on our own planet in order to analyse the likelihood of life and language beyond Earth.

Author : Kevin Hand
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691227284
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.83/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Alien Oceans written by Kevin Hand and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2021-09-21 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Inside the epic quest to find life on the water-rich moons at the outer reaches of the solar system Where is the best place to find life beyond Earth? We often look to Mars as the most promising site in our solar system, but recent scientific missions have revealed that some of the most habitable real estate may actually lie farther away. Beneath the frozen crusts of several of the small, ice-covered moons of Jupiter and Saturn lurk vast oceans that may have existed for as long as Earth, and together may contain more than fifty times its total volume of liquid water. Could there be organisms living in their depths? Alien Oceans reveals the science behind the thrilling quest to find out. Kevin Peter Hand is one of today's leading NASA scientists, and his pioneering research has taken him on expeditions around the world. In this captivating account of scientific discovery, he brings together insights from planetary science, biology, and the adventures of scientists like himself to explain how we know that oceans exist within moons of the outer solar system, like Europa, Titan, and Enceladus. He shows how the exploration of Earth's oceans is informing our understanding of the potential habitability of these icy moons, and draws lessons from what we have learned about the origins of life on our own planet to consider how life could arise on these distant worlds. Alien Oceans describes what lies ahead in our search for life in our solar system and beyond, setting the stage for the transformative discoveries that may await us.

Author : Dolores Watson
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
ISBN 13 : 1483678598
Total Pages : 87 pages
Book Rating : 4.97/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Beyond Earth written by Dolores Watson and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2013-08-27 with total page 87 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It was in the year 2065 on planet Earth that the Astronauts, where planning a trip to a planet in another galaxy. This planet was called Clarion. They have been searching decades for a planet that would resemble the Earth. The people also wanted to find the origin of the people that visited the Earth planet many thousand years ago. They left evidence of a far advanced race that had played a role in the developing the planet Earth. The people finely have developed their space ships so they would travel light years into space in a condensed amount of time.

Author : Robert Shapiro
Publisher : Light Technology Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9781891824500
Total Pages : 644 pages
Book Rating : 4.03/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Animal Souls Speak written by Robert Shapiro and published by Light Technology Publishing. This book was released on 2007 with total page 644 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Arcturus is the name given to the star system some thirty-seven light-years from our own. It includes at least a half dozen planetary bodies and is many times larger and much older than our own star and its system. Arcturian involvement with our system began over three million years ago when a space colony--a galactic space station--was established on Velatropa 24.4, otherwise known as Mars. With its 40,000-year warm cycles, Mars provided the perfect experimental way station. If anything went wrong, at least those on the Arcturus system would not be affected--or so it was thought. Some of those in command of the Martian project had not considered carefully enough the inexorable efficacy of karma, the law of cause and effect. By the time strange events began to transpire on Mars, little did anyone on Mars or Arcturus reckon the strange consequences of forgetting about each other's mutual existence. Thus unfolds the tale of the Arcturian experimental way station, V.24.4, otherwise kno