Mankind Beyond Earth: The History, Science, and Future of Human Space Exploration - Hardcover

Piantadosi, Claude A.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0231162421 ISBN 13: 9780231162425

Verlag: Columbia University Press, 2013

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Claude A. Piantadosi presents a rich history of American space exploration and its extraordinary achievements. He emphasizes the importance of continuing manned and unmanned space missions to American and human interests, and he stresses the many adventures that still await us in the unfolding universe. Remaining cognizant of space explorations practical and financial obstacles, Piantadosi nevertheless challenges us to revitalize our leadership in space and reap its vast scientific bounty. Along with being a captivating story of ambition, invention, and discovery, Piantadosis history explains why space exploration is increasingly difficult and why space experts always seem to disagree. He argues that the future of the space program requires merging the practicalities of exploration with the constraints of human biology. Space science deals with the unknown, and the margin (and budget) for error is small. Lethal near-vacuum conditions, deadly cosmic radiation, microgravity, vast distances, and highly scattered resources remain immense physical problems.

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Claude A. Piantadosi MD is professor and director of the F. G. Hall Environmental Laboratory at Duke University. Educated at the University of North Carolina–Chapel Hill and the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, he trained in undersea medicine and saturation diving in the U.S. Navy and in respiratory physiology and pulmonary medicine at Duke. He spent thirty years as a resource consultant to NASA. He is an author of more than three hundred scientific papers and The Biology of Human Survival: Life and Death in Extreme Environments.

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• Verlag: Columbia University Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2013
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0231162421
• ISBN 13: 9780231162425
• Einband: Gebundene Ausgabe
• Anzahl der Seiten: 336
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