Living Off the Land in Space : Green Roads to the Cosmos

This book presents a visionary concept for future development of space travel. It describes the enabling technology for future propulsion concepts and demonstrates how mankind will ‘live off the land in space’ in migration from Earth. For the next few millennia at least (barring breakthroughs), the human frontier will include the solar system and the nearest stars. Will it be better to settle the Moon, Mars, or a nearby asteroid and what environments can we expect to find in the vicinity of nearby stars? These are questions that need to be answered if mankind is to migrate into space. "Beyond our first tentative boot-steps on the Moon, what are the prospects for human exploration and settlement and, in the long run, large-scale human emigration to other parts of the solar system, even into the furthest reaches of space? Based firmly on scientific and technological accomplishments - as well as actual advanced projects, from those currently in development to those still barely conceptualized - the authors present in this book visionary ideas about how humans may one day propel themselves through space by making use of resources they encounter along the way. These resources coupled with new technologies, the authors suggest, will make it possible for future space travelers to literally redefine our place in the universe."--Jacket Gregory L. Matloff, Les Johnson, C Bangs. Includes Bibliographical References And Index. bl2345f1.pdf bl2345f2.pdf bl2345f3.pdf bl2345f4.pdf bl2345f5.pdf