Space exploration
By: David Ashford
Series: All that matters; All that matters
Publisher: Hodder Education
Published: 2013
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 152
ISBN-13: 9781444183832
Subjects: Exploration; History; Exploration of outer space
Description: Amid a century devastated by war, space exploration was perhaps mankind's greatest achievement of the twentieth century. Yet remarkably, in a world where most technology progresses constantly, space exploration appears to have gone backwards. Man has not returned to the moon since 1972; the space shuttle programme has finished and not been replaced; much-vaunted promises of space tourism have not become realistic. In this remarkable book, David Ashford looks back at the story of space exploration, identifying the factors that were a driving force behind the eye-catching programmes of the cold war, and showing how now new driving forces are needed. Using his own extensive experience as a practitioner and researcher of space exploration, Ashford then outlines a new, realistic roadmap for achieving the new space age soon and at an affordable cost.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 135-136), filmography (page 135) , and index.
Table of contents: title: Why space?; title: A brief history of launch vehicles; title: Getting to space; title: Revolution; title: The new space race; title: Your space tourism experience; title: Who owns space?; title: Space and the environment; title: Space colonization; title: Safety; title: Roadmap to the new space age; title: Finally.