The Case For Space

Author : Robert Zubrin
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 1633885348
Total Pages : 408 pages
Book Rating : 4.49/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Case for Space written by Robert Zubrin and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A new space race has begun. But the rivals in this case are not superpowers but competing entrepreneurs. These daring pioneers are creating a revolution in spaceflight that promises to transform the near future. Astronautical engineer Robert Zubrin spells out the potential of these new developments in an engrossing narrative that is visionary yet grounded by a deep understanding of the practical challenges. Fueled by the combined expertise of the old aerospace industry and the talents of Silicon Valley entrepreneurs, spaceflight is becoming cheaper. The new generation of space explorers has already achieved a major breakthrough by creating reusable rockets. Zubrin foresees more rapid innovation, including global travel from any point on Earth to another in an hour or less; orbital hotels; moon bases with incredible space observatories; human settlements on Mars, the asteroids, and the moons of the outer planets; and then, breaking all limits, pushing onward to the stars."--Publisher's website.

Author : Robert Zubrin
Publisher : Prometheus Books
ISBN 13 : 1633885356
Total Pages : 408 pages
Book Rating : 4.56/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Case for Space written by Robert Zubrin and published by Prometheus Books. This book was released on 2019-05-14 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A noted space expert explains the current revolution in spaceflight, where it leads, and why we need it. A new space race has begun. But the rivals in this case are not superpowers but competing entrepreneurs. These daring pioneers are creating a revolution in spaceflight that promises to transform the near future. Astronautical engineer Robert Zubrin spells out the potential of these new developments in an engrossing narrative that is visionary yet grounded by a deep understanding of the practical challenges. Fueled by the combined expertise of the old aerospace industry and the talents of Silicon Valley entrepreneurs, spaceflight is becoming cheaper. The new generation of space explorers has already achieved a major breakthrough by creating reusable rockets. Zubrin foresees more rapid innovation, including global travel from any point on Earth to another in an hour or less; orbital hotels; moon bases with incredible space observatories; human settlements on Mars, the asteroids, and the moons of the outer planets; and then, breaking all limits, pushing onward to the stars. Zubrin shows how projects that sound like science fiction can actually become reality. But beyond the how, he makes an even more compelling case for why we need to do this--to increase our knowledge of the universe, to make unforeseen discoveries on new frontiers, to harness the natural resources of other planets, to safeguard Earth from stray asteroids, to ensure the future of humanity by expanding beyond its home base, and to protect us from being catastrophically set against each other by the false belief that there isn't enough for all.

Author : Stuart Gibbs
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1442494883
Total Pages : 249 pages
Book Rating : 4.86/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Space Case written by Stuart Gibbs and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2014-09-16 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It’s a murder mystery on the moon in this humorous and suspenseful space adventure from the author of Belly Up and Spy School that The New York Times Book Review called “a delightful and brilliantly constructed middle grade thriller.” Like his fellow lunarnauts—otherwise known as Moonies—living on Moon Base Alpha, twelve-year-old Dashiell Gibson is famous the world over for being one of the first humans to live on the moon. And he’s bored out of his mind. Kids aren’t allowed on the lunar surface, meaning they’re trapped inside the tiny moon base with next to nothing to occupy their time—and the only other kid Dash’s age spends all his time hooked into virtual reality games. Then Moon Base Alpha’s top scientist turns up dead. Dash senses there’s foul play afoot, but no one believes him. Everyone agrees Dr. Holtz went onto the lunar surface without his helmet properly affixed, simple as that. But Dr. Holtz was on the verge of an important new discovery, Dash finds out, and it’s a secret that could change everything for the Moonies—a secret someone just might kill to keep...

Author : Daniel Deudney
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 019090335X
Total Pages : 450 pages
Book Rating : 4.50/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Dark Skies written by Daniel Deudney and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2020-03-02 with total page 450 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Space is again in the headlines. E-billionaires Jeff Bezos and Elon Musk are planning to colonize Mars. President Trump wants a "Space Force" to achieve "space dominance" with expensive high-tech weapons. The space and nuclear arms control regimes are threadbare and disintegrating. Would-be asteroid collision diverters, space solar energy collectors, asteroid miners, and space geo-engineers insistently promote their Earth-changing mega-projects. Given our many looming planetary catastrophes (from extreme climate change to runaway artificial superintelligence), looking beyond the earth for solutions might seem like a sound strategy for humanity. And indeed, bolstered by a global network of fervent space advocates-and seemingly rendered plausible, even inevitable, by oceans of science fiction and the wizardly of modern cinema-space beckons as a fully hopeful path for human survival and flourishing, a positive future in increasingly dark times. But despite even basic questions of feasibility, will these many space ventures really have desirable effects, as their advocates insist? In the first book to critically assess the major consequences of space activities from their origins in the 1940s to the present and beyond, Daniel Deudney argues in Dark Skies that the major result of the "Space Age" has been to increase the likelihood of global nuclear war, a fact conveniently obscured by the failure of recognize that nuclear-armed ballistic missiles are inherently space weapons. The most important practical finding of Space Age science, also rarely emphasized, is the discovery that we live on Oasis Earth, tiny and fragile, and teeming with astounding life, but surrounded by an utterly desolate and inhospitable wilderness stretching at least many trillions of miles in all directions. As he stresses, our focus must be on Earth and nowhere else. Looking to the future, Deudney provides compelling reasons why space colonization will produce new threats to human survival and not alleviate the existing ones. That is why, he argues, we should fully relinquish the quest. Mind-bending and profound, Dark Skies challenges virtually all received wisdom about the final frontier.

Author : Lynda Beauregard
Publisher : Millbrook Press
ISBN 13 : 1512458155
Total Pages : 48 pages
Book Rating : 4.52/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Great Space Case written by Lynda Beauregard and published by Millbrook Press. This book was released on 2017-01-01 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Audisee® eBooks with Audio combine professional narration and sentence highlighting to engage reluctant readers! It's Space Week at Camp Dakota! The first team to answer three astronomy riddles will get to attend a top secret "big event." With space ace Angie leading them, team Astro Explorers is a shoo-in for first place. So why is team Star Troopers solving the riddles first? The Astro Explorers had better think fast if they want the big prize. Look in the back of the book for experiments and more to help you become a science detective too!

Author : Edward Marshall
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0140547045
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.47/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Space Case written by Edward Marshall and published by Penguin. This book was released on 1992-09-01 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Illustrated by the Caldecott Honor winner James Marshall, this Halloween story is sure to entertain! When the thing from outer space visits earth, it is taken first for a trick-or-treater and then for a robot in this hilarious picture book.

Author : Random House Disney
Publisher : RH/Disney
ISBN 13 : 9780736420174
Total Pages : 28 pages
Book Rating : 4.77/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Space Case written by Random House Disney and published by RH/Disney. This book was released on 2002-10-15 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this Pictureback* adventure, B.E.N. (which is short for Bio-Electronic Navigator) is a bucket-of-bolts robot with a missing memory circuit. He may be confused, but he sure is funny!

Author : Carol Thompson
Publisher : Scholastic Paperbacks
ISBN 13 : 9780590880084
Total Pages : 80 pages
Book Rating : 4.8X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Case of the U. S. Space Camp Mission written by Carol Thompson and published by Scholastic Paperbacks. This book was released on 1996 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While visiting the U.S. Space Camp, Mary-Kate and Ashley search for clues that will explain why the space shuttle was covered with hundreds of mysterious holes.

Author : Kristen L. Depken
Publisher : Random House Books for Young Readers
ISBN 13 : 0553538861
Total Pages : 26 pages
Book Rating : 4.61/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Chase's Space Case (Paw Patrol) written by Kristen L. Depken and published by Random House Books for Young Readers. This book was released on 2016-01-05 with total page 26 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chase and the rest of Nickelodeon's PAW Patrol have an out-of-this-world adventure when they help a lost alien find his spaceship. Boys and girls ages 4 to 6 will love this Step 1 Step into Reading leveled reader. Step 1 readers feature big type and easy words. Rhymes and rhythmic text paired with picture clues help children decode the story. This book is for children who know the alphabet and are eager to begin reading.

Author : Steve Brezenoff
Publisher : Capstone
ISBN 13 : 1496525167
Total Pages : 129 pages
Book Rating : 4.61/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Case of the Stolen Space Suit written by Steve Brezenoff and published by Capstone. This book was released on 2016-01-01 with total page 129 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When the spacesuit of famous astronaut Sally Ride disappears from a traveling exhibit, Amal Farah, daughter of the Air and Space Museum's archivist, and her three friends, are determined to find the culprit before the exhibit is cancelled.