Contributor
Grey House Publishing, Inc. compiler.
ImprintAmenia, New York : Grey House Publishing, 2019.
Descriptionxiii, 184 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.
Note:1. Visions of Space -- Space For Sale -- Super Fast Travel Using Outer Space Could Be $20 Billion Market, Disrupting Airlines, UBS Predicts / Michael Sheetz -- Moon 2069: Lunar Tourism and Deep Space Launches a Century on from Apollo? / Monica Grady -- Soon, Hundreds of Tourists Will Go to Space: What Should We Call Them? / Eric Berger -- Space Tourism Could Have Big Impact on Climate / David Chiga -- Space Tourism's Rubbery Rockets May Spur Climate Change / Dave Mosher -- China Plans a Solar Power Play in Space That NASA Abandoned Decades Ago / Eric Rosenbaum and Donovan Russ -- 2019 Is the Year That Space Tourism Finally Becomes a Reality: No, Really / Jonathan O'Callaghan -- Space Solar Power: Limitless Clean Energy from Space -- 2. The Military in Space -- In Defense of Space -- The Moon's Role in the New U.S. Space Force / Paul D. Spudis -- Trump's Space Force Gets the Final Frontier All Wrong / Peter Juul -- A Handshake in Space Changed US-Russia Relations: How Long Will It Last? / Monica Grady -- The U.S. Military Has Been in Space from the Beginning / Jason Daley -- Space Force or Space Corps? / Kaitlyn Johnson -- Renewed Space Rivalry between Nations Ignores a Tradition of Cooperation / Scott Shackelford -- Trump's Space Force Isn't the Only Military Space Program: Here's What China and Russia Are Up To / Kyle Mizokami -- 3. Legacy of the Space Race -- Past and Future Missions -- Apollo Was NASA's Biggest Win--But Its Legacy Is Holding the Agency Back / Loren Grush -- Many People Still Believe the Moon Landing Was Fake: But Who's Profiting? / Rebecca Jennings -- Q&A: Shuttle Astronaut Mike Massimino on the Legacy of Apollo 11 / Jennifer Leman -- "A Thrill Ran Through Me": Your Memories of the Apollo 11 Moon Landing / Matthew Holmes and Guardian readers -- The Mission That Changed Everything / Robin McKie -- Apollo 13: Lessons from the Successful Failure / Geoff Loftus -- 4. NASA and the International Space Station -- Space Futures -- What's Next for NASA? / Brian Dunbar -- What Space Stations Will Look Like in 2030 / Joe Pappalardo -- As NASA Aims for the Moon, an Aging Space Station Faces an Uncertain Future / Neil GreenfieldBoyce -- How Americans See the Future of Space Exploration, 50 Years after the First Moon Landing / Courtney Johnson -- NASA Seeks to Break the "Tyranny of Launch" with In-Space Manufacturing / Eric Berger -- NASA Chooses Saturn's Moon Titan as Its Next Destination / Mary Beth Griggs -- With Opportunity Lost, NASA Confronts the Tenuous Future of Mars Exploration / John Wenz -- 5. Space in Popular Culture -- Aliens, Movies, and Fiction -- Donald Trump's Space Force Plans Analysed by a Sci-Fi Expert / Paul March-Russell -- The Science of Star Trek / David Allen Batchelor -- Would Aliens Look Like Us? / Jonathan Losos -- More Than 1 Million People Have RSVP'd to "Storm Area 51" in the Name of Memes / Allegra Frank -- Audacious & Outrageous: Space Elevators / Steve Price.
Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references (pages 169-172) and index.
Note:This edition of The Reference Shelf examines the evolving issues of space science and technology, providing periodical articles that provide perspective of America's past, present, and future in the realm of space exploration. Issues examined include the debate over military space development from Star Wars to the Space Force, the future of NASA, and the growth and possible future of the private space tourism industry.
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