The Farthest Shore; A 21st Century Guide to Space

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• ISBN13: 9781926592077
• ISBN10: 1926592077
• Format: Trade Paper
• Copyright: 2010-02-01
• Publisher: Collectors Guide Pub

Summary

The Farthest Shore is a comprehensive new guide to space systems and exploration in the 21st century. Spanning a broad range of disciplines the reader can find out about all aspects of space, from how we use space to deal with global warming to the latest in space tourism. World experts, from astronauts and astrophysicists to space zoologists, tell us about the different ways we can use space to survive on Earth or create totally new industries. This book, largely written in narrative form, explains how we use space in our lives in ways that continue to expand wider and wider every year. The Farthest Shore is designed so that everyone from high school students to news reporters, from sci-fi fans to space groupies, can acquire a broad-based understanding of all the things that outer space represents to humans today - and tomorrow. It is unique in its wide, thorough and international approach, with authors drawn from around the world.

Author Biography

Dr. Joseph N. Pelton is the director of the Space and Advanced Communications Research Institute at George Washington University. He was chairman of the board and vice president of academic programs for the International Space University in Strasbourg, France; founding president of the Society of Satellite Professionals International; and executive editor of the International Academy of Astronomics. He is the author of more than two dozen books, including the Pulitzer Prize–winning Global Talk and Space Exploration and Astronaut Safety. He lives in Arlington, Virginia. Dr. Angelia P. Bukley has more than two decades of professional experience in space and defense systems and is the acting vice president for research at the University of Tennessee Space Institute. She has worked at the NASA Marshall Space Flight Center and has published more than 70 technical publications. She is the coauthor and coeditor of Artificial Gravity. She lives in Tullahoma, Tennessee.

Table of Contents

Dedication	p. 5
Acknowledgements	p. 8
Foreword	p. 9
Preface	p. 13
The Farthest Shore: A 21st Century Guide to Space	p. 17
Humans and Space, Stories, Images, Music and Dance	p. 27
Space Stories	p. 73
The Future of Space	p. 115
The Universe and Us	p. 131
Satellites in Service to Humanity	p. 181
Systems and Spacecraft	p. 221
Space Missins and Programs - Why and How we Go to Space	p. 255
Space Policyo, Law and Security	p. 291
Life in Space for Life on Earth	p. 321
Creating Space Markets: Understanding the Economic Rationale	p. 357
The Meaning of it All	p. 387
Appendix - Biographical Sketches and Affiliations	p. 393
Index	p. 400
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