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Loading... Final Frontier: The Pioneering Science and Technology of Exploring the Universeby Brian Clegg
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Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. No current Talk conversations about this book. The past history and future possibilities of off-Earth travel and operations by humans. Undemanding and quite comprehensive, eventually getting to topics as far out as space elevators, faster-than-light travel, and spaceships housing uploaded minds. (In the lexical-errors department, seeing "principle" where "principal" belongs is unfortunately not novel, but "taught" in place of "taut" has to be a first. Wake up, copy editors.) no reviews | add a review
"Human beings are natural explorers, and nowhere is this frontier spirit stronger than in the United States of America. It almost defines the character of the US. But the Earth is running out of frontiers fast. Star Trek was right -- there is only one final frontier, and that is space. In Brian Clegg's The Final Frontier we discover the massive challenges that face explorers, both human and robotic, to uncover the current and future technologies that could take us out into the galaxy and take a voyage of discovery where no one has gone before... but one day someone will. In 2003, General Wesley Clark set the nation a challenge to produce the technology that would enable new pioneers to explore the galaxy. That challenge is tough -- the greatest we've ever faced. But taking on the final frontier does not have to be a fantasy.In a time of recession, escapism is always popular -- and what greater escape from the everyday can there be than the chance of leaving Earth's bounds and exploring the universe? With a rich popular culture heritage in science fiction movies, books and TV shows, this is a subject that entertains and informs in equal measure"-- No library descriptions found. |
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Google Books — Loading... GenresMelvil Decimal System (DDC)629.4Technology Engineering and allied operations Other Branches Astronauts and Space TravelLC ClassificationRatingAverage: No ratings. |