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Title

The next space age / edited by Christopher Mari.

Publication

New York : H.W. Wilson Co., 2008.

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Details

Additional Authors

Mari, Christopher.

Description

ix, 187 p. : ill.; 26 cm.

Summary

"The book is divided into six chapters. The first section, "Project Constellation: NASA's Vision for Space Exploration," focuses on the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)'s plans to bring Americans out of low Earth orbit and back to the Moon, where the space agency hopes to establish a permanent lunar colony as part of its long-term preparations to conduct a manned exploration of Mars. In the second chapter, "A New Space Race? The Rise of China's Space Program," selections provide an overview of China's space program, including information about its Shenzhou space capsules and Long March rockets, as well as articles that debate the impact the Chinese program will have on its American counterpart. The issue of privately funded spaceflight is addressed in "Commercializing the Cosmos: Private Industry in Outer Space," which brings together articles that describe the many private space ventures that have sprung up in recent years. The fourth section, "Roving the Red Planet: The Continuing Exploration of Mars," assembles articles that provide historical context to the ongoing robotic exploration of the red planet, as well as information on what these missions have uncovered thus far. Robotic exploration is also examined in "Sailing Through the Solar System: A Look at Unmanned Probes," in which selected entries detail how probes work, recall famously successful probes like the Pioneer and Voyager series, and compare the various probes currently tooling about our solar system. Articles in the final section, "Exoplanets: The Search for Extrasolar Earths," discuss the efforts by astronomers to find a planet similar to Earth that might harbor extraterrestrial life." -- Book Preface.

Series Statement

Reference shelf ; v. 80, no. 5

Uniform Title

Reference shelf ; v. 80, no. 5.

Subject

• Astronautics > Forecasting
• Outer space > Exploration

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. [173]-184) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

To the moon and beyond / Charles Dingell, William A. Johns, and Julie Kramer White -- To the moon! (in a minivan) / Charles Fishman -- Can we survive on the moon? / Guy Gugliotta -- Science versus exploration / Michael Griffin -- Experts to discuss U.S. space plan / John Schwartz -- China's space leadership / Leonard David -- New challengers emerge, threatening to take the lead / Guy Gugliotta -- China's space ambitions / Phillip C. Saunders -- China's space program / William S. Murray III and Robert Antonellis -- To reach for the moon / Melinda Liu and Mary Carmichael -- Snubbed by U.S., China finds new space partners / Jim Yardley -- Not your father's space program / Glenn Harlan Reynolds -- Space travel for fun and profit / Katherine Mangu-Ward -- Space business booming along the southwest "rocket belt" / Leonard David -- Space race II / Michael Milstein -- Zero G, zero tax / Dennis Wingo -- Mariner IV to Mars and more / Katherine Bracher -- Inside the Mars Rover missions / Bill Farrand -- What we learned on Mars / Ivan Semeniuk -- Lander finds ice on Mars, scientists say / David Brown -- Life on Mars? / Carl Zimmer -- Ask the experts / Scientific American -- Spacecraft behaving badly / Neil deGrasse Tyson -- Go boldly, Voyager / Tim Appenzeller -- Cosmic flock / Dan Cray -- Michel Mayor / Christopher Mari -- Record fifth planet discovered around distant star / JR Minkel -- The new search for distant planets / Geoffrey W. Marcy -- Where is life hiding? / Margaret Turnbull -- Searching for Earth's history among Earth-like worlds / Lisa Kaltenegger -- Where are they? / Nick Bostrom.

ISBN

• 9780824210823 (alk. paper)
• 0824210824 (alk. paper)

LCCN

^^2008036936

OCLC

• 244352653
• SCSB-10670583

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library