Mankind Beyond Earth by Piantadosi, Claude A. -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Cover Title Page Copyright Epigraph Contents Preface A Short Introduction to the Science of Space Exploration Part 1: Hindsight and Foresight

1. Men and Machines

A House Divided Robot Days So Few Plausible Options

2. A Space Lexicon

The Thin Blue Line The Science of Limits Genes and Adaptation Some Astronomical Concepts The Tortoise and the Hare

3. The Explorers

People of Adventure Polar Science, Space Science The Hard-Shell Engineers The Space Doctors

4. Twentieth-Century Space

The Early Days Project Apollo The Shuttle Disasters LEO and the Space Station

5. Back to the Moon

Serene Selene Water, Water Everywhere It’s Not Made of Green Cheese Extravehicular Activity The View from Earth

Part 2: A Home Away From Home

6. Living off the Land

Energy and Efficiency Ecological Footprints On Never Running Out of Air Water and Food

7. Round and Round It Goes . . . Where It Stops, Nobody Knows

Recycling: Open or Closed, Hot or Cold? The CO2 Cycle Making Room for the Jolly Green Giant Micronutrients

8. By Force of Gravity

Allometry Balance and Perception Bone and Muscle Weightlessness and the White Cell

9. The Cosmic Ray Dilemma

The ABCs of Cosmic Rays The ALARA Principle Radiation’s Effects Countermeasures

10. Tiny Bubbles

Destination Mars Microbes in Space Gas Leaks The Age of the Astronaut On Biological Clocks

Part 3: Where Are We Going?

11. The Case for Mars

The Weather Forecast Surface Time Suits and Structures One-Way Trips

12. Big Planets, Dwarf Planets, and Small Bodies

The Truth About Asteroids Oasis Ceres Titan and the Galileans Moons of the Ice Giants

13. New Stars, New Planets

On Leaving the Solar System The Interstellar Medium Changing Ourselves Science Fact, Science Fiction

Bibliography and Additional Reading Index