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Trailblazing Mars NASA's Next Giant Leap by Pat Duggins hc 2010 Space Travel
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- Condition
- Very Good
- Seller Notes
- “Minor rubbing to jacket. Clean pages and strong spine.”
- Subject
- Science & Nature
- Features
- 1st Edition, Dust Jacket, Illustrated
- Age Level
- Adult
- Country/Region of Manufacture
- United States
- ISBN
- 9780813035185
- EAN
- 9780813035185
- Book Title
- Trailblazing Mars : Nasa's Next Giant Leap
- Publisher
- University Press of Florida
- Item Length
- 9 in
- Publication Year
- 2010
- Format
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- Illustrator
- Yes
- Genre
- Technology & Engineering, History
- Topic
- United States / General, Aeronautics & Astronautics
- Item Weight
- 19.1 Oz
- Item Width
- 6 in
- Number of Pages
- 224 Pages
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Fulfilling the dream as NASA prepares to send astronauts to Mars "Duggins gives you the how of the process along with the facts. Who knows what trails this book will help blaze. Read on."--Bill Nye the Science Guy(R) and executive director of The Planetary Society "From the Mariner probes of the 1960s to the rovers " and " from fanciful human travel in science fiction to realities for human exploration in the future, this book places into context the lure of the red planet and our desire to know it better."Spirit"Opportunity, "--Roger Launius, Senior Curator, National Air and Space Museum, Smithsonian Institution "Mars may be the destination, but the book is really a study of the people who have taken us as far as we have come. Duggins has written a marvelous book, sure to inspire our imaginations and remind us that all space travel ultimately arises from human ingenuity."--Howard McCurdy, author of Space and the American Imagination Travel to and from Mars has long been a staple of science fiction. And yet the hurdles--both technological and financial--have kept human exploration of the red planet from becoming a reality. Trailblazing Mars offers an inside look at the current efforts to fulfill this dream. Award-winning journalist Pat Duggins examines the extreme new challenges that will be faced by astronauts on the journey there and back. They'll have to grow their own food, find their own water, and solve their own problems and emergencies without hope of rescue or re-supply. Mars travel will be more challenging and hazardous than settling the Old West--but we were not witness to the fate of the Donner Party on CNN. Can the technological hurdles be cleared? Will the public accept the very real possibility of astronaut death? Should a mission be publicly or privately funded? Is the science worth the cost? These and many other questions are answered in Duggins's exciting new book.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
University Press of Florida
ISBN-10
081303518x
ISBN-13
9780813035185
eBay Product ID (ePID)
9038716500
Product Key Features
Book Title
Trailblazing Mars : Nasa's Next Giant Leap
Number of Pages
224 Pages
Language
English
Publication Year
2010
Topic
United States / General, Aeronautics & Astronautics
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
Technology & Engineering, History
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
Item Weight
19.1 Oz
Item Length
9 in
Item Width
6 in
Additional Product Features
Dewey Edition
22
Reviews
"Duggins gives you the how of the process along with the facts. Who knows what trails this book will help blaze? Read on."-- Bill Nye the Science Guy and executive director of The Planetary Society, "Digs through the history of space exploration as well as the various issues associated with the exploration of Mars."-- Space Review, "Duggins's timely and engrossing study will interest explorers and armchair astronauts alike, and remind readers of the excitement of outer space."-- Publishers Weekly, "Duggins gives you the how of the process along with the facts. Who knows what trails this book will help blaze? Read on."-- Bill Nye the Science Guy and executive director of The Planetary Society , "Examines the history of NASA's robotic exploration of the Red Planet and the agency's plans for future human exploration. . . . Emphasizes the widespread belief that if human exploration of Mars is to take place, astronauts will have to 'live off the land' like Earth-bound explorers of the past."-- Quest, "Keeps the fire of exploration going, looking out to the day when humans will make the trailblazing trek to Mars."-- Coalition for Space Exploration
Lccn
2010-015139
Target Audience
Trade
Dewey Decimal
629.43/543
Lc Classification Number
Tl799.M3d84 2010
Copyright Date
2010
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