Space 2000: Meeting the Challenge of a New Era - Softcover

Shipman, Harry L.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0306425343 ISBN 13: 9780306425349

Publisher: Springer, 1987

Synopsis

Discusses the Challenger tragedy and its effects on the space program, identifies practical uses for space, and surveys the information NASA has produced about our solar system and the universe

About this title

From Publishers Weekly:

In a hearty volume documented in depth, Shipman (The Restless Universe, etc.) offers a compendious examination of space ventures we can look forward to in spite of the disaster that befell the Challenger. A NASA consultant, he presents virtually an insider's view of the current plightof the U.S. space programworldwide competition, low moraleto explain what may lie ahead if we can meet the stupendous costs. He is exciting if not totally groundbreaking in projecting possible-to-probable explorations of the near and distant cosmospractical stuff here, not theoryalong with a new "earth science" practiced from orbiters; an industrial era set up by experiments with materials in "microgravity"; and, ultimately, the first attempts at a colony on Mars once permanent space stations are developed to meet the physical and psychological needs of humans. A bravo overview.
Copyright 1987 Reed Business Information, Inc.

About this edition

• Publisher: Springer
• Publication date: 1987
• ISBN 10: 0306425343
• ISBN 13: 9780306425349
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 441