| Description |
ix, 187 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm. |
| Series |
The reference shelf ; v. 80, no. 5 |
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Reference shelf ; v. 80, no. 5.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages [173]-184) and index. |
| Contents |
To the moon and beyond / Charles Dingell, William A. Johns, and Julie Kramer White -- To the moon! (in a minivan) / Charles Fishman -- Can we survive on the moon? / Guy Gugliotta -- Science versus exploration / Michael Griffin -- Experts to discuss U.S. space plan / John Schwartz -- China's space leadership / Leonard David -- New challengers emerge, threatening to take the lead / Guy Gugliotta -- China's space ambitions / Phillip C. Saunders -- China's space program / William S. Murray III and Robert Antonellis -- To reach for the moon / Melinda Liu and Mary Carmichael -- Snubbed by U.S., China finds new space partners / Jim Yardley -- Not your father's space program / Glenn Harlan Reynolds -- Space travel for fun and profit / Katherine Mangu-Ward -- Space business booming along the southwest "rocket belt" / Leonard David -- Space race II / Michael Milstein -- Zero G, zero tax / Dennis Wingo -- Mariner IV to Mars and more / Katherine Bracher -- Inside the Mars Rover missions / Bill Farrand -- What we learned on Mars / Ivan Semeniuk -- Lander finds ice on Mars, scientists say / David Brown -- Life on Mars? / Carl Zimmer -- Ask the experts / Scientific American -- Spacecraft behaving badly / Neil deGrasse Tyson -- Go boldly, Voyager / Tim Appenzeller -- Cosmic flock / Dan Cray -- Michel Mayor / Christopher Mari -- Record fifth planet discovered around distant star / JR Minkel -- The new search for distant planets / Geoffrey W. Marcy -- Where is life hiding? / Margaret Turnbull -- Searching for Earth's history among Earth-like worlds / Lisa Kaltenegger -- Where are they? / Nick Bostrom. |
| Subject |
Astronautics -- Forecasting.
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Outer space -- Exploration.
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| Added Author |
Mari, Christopher.
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| ISBN |
9780824210823 alkaline paper |
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0824210824 alkaline paper |
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