Trailblazing Mars (eBook)

NASA's Next Giant Leap

Pat Duggins (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2010
256 Seiten
University Press of Florida (Verlag)
978-0-8130-3749-3 (ISBN)

Infos

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.

Autor

Pat Duggins is news director at Alabama Public Radio and author of Final Countdown: NASA and the End of the Space Shuttle Program. He covered more than 100 space shuttle missions for NPR, starting with the 1986 Challenger accident and including three hours of live coverage following the 2003 loss of Columbia.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 19.9.2010
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
• Themenwelt: Technik ► Fahrzeugbau / Schiffbau
• Themenwelt: Technik ► Luft- / Raumfahrttechnik
• Schlagworte: Astronauts • Colonizing Mars • exploration • explorers • exploring space • History • human space flight • man on mars • Nasa • Other Planets • outer space • Pat Duggins • Red Planet • space
• ISBN-10: 0-8130-3749-2 / 0813037492
• ISBN-13: 978-0-8130-3749-3 / 9780813037493