Springer Praxis Books: Building a Future on the Moon and Mars

Benaroya, Haym

The expansion of our civilization to the Moon and beyond is now within our reach, technically, intellectually and financially. Apollo was not our last foray into the Solar System and already science fiction is finding it difficult to keep ahead of science and engineering fact. In 1807, few people anticipated the Wright Brothers’ human flight a hundred years later. In 1869, only science fiction writers would have suggested landing people on the Moon in 1969. Similarly, other great inventions in mechanics and in electronics were not envisaged and therefore the technologies to which those inventions gave birth were only foreseen by a tiny group of visionaries.

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Published by: Praxis

Publication Date: 2010-04-08

Format: Paperback

ISBN-13: 9781441908704

DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4419-0871-1

Dimensions: 229cm x152cm

Pages: 400