ON TO THE ASTEROID - Softcover

TAYLOR, TRAVIS

Softcover

ISBN 10: 148148267X ISBN 13: 9781481482677

Verlag: BAEN BOOKS, 2017

Inhaltsangabe

Realistic thriller crackling with action and danger as an asteroid threatens the Earth, and dedicated astronauts and scientists try to save the planet.

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LOOMING DESTRUCTION FROM SPACE! It's the beginning of a new golden age of space exploration. Finally, humanity is taking the commercialization of space to the next level―mining asteroids. The new gold rush of the commercial space era has begun. Another co

Biografía del autor:

Travis S. Taylor, Ph.D. is the co-creator and star of the National Geographic Channel's hit series, Rocket City Rednecks and can be seen on the Weather Channel on 3 Scientists Walk into a Bar. Taylor is a physicist who has worked on various programs for the Department of Defense and NASA for the past twenty years. His expertise includes advanced propulsion concepts, very large space telescopes, space-based beamed energy systems, future combat technologies and next generation space launch concepts. Taylor is also the author of pulse-pounding, cutting edge science fiction with the Tau Ceti Agenda series including One Good Soldier, The Tau Ceti Agenda, One Day on Mars, and Trail of Evil, as well as his ground-breaking Warp Speed series, with entries Warp Speed and The Quantum Connection. Les Johnson is a NASA physicist and author. By day, he serves as the Senior Technical Assistant for the Advanced Concepts Office at the NASA George C. Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama. In the early 2000s, he was NASA's Manager for Interstellar Propulsion Research and later managed the In-Space Propulsion Technology Project. He was technical consultant for the movie Lost in Space and has appeared on the Discovery Channel series, Physics of the Impossible in the "How to Build a Starship" episode. He has also appeared in three episodes of the Science Channel series Exodus Earth. He is the author of novel Back to the Moon, coauthored with Travis S. Taylor, and the coeditor of the science/science fiction collection Going Interstellar.

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• Verlag: BAEN BOOKS
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2017
• ISBN 10: 148148267X
• ISBN 13: 9781481482677
• Einband: Libro de bolsillo
• Anzahl der Seiten: 496