| BEYOND EARTH Our Path to a New Home in the Planets Charles Wohlforth Amanda R. Hendrix, Ph.D. New York: Pantheon Books, November 2016 |
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| ISBN-13 978-0-8041-9797-7 | ||||
| ISBN-10 0-8041-9797-0 | 321pp. | HC/BWI | $27.95 | |
| Introduction: The Way off the Earth | 3 | |
| 1: | How to Predict the Future | 11 |
| 2: | The Inner Solar System and the Problem with NASA | 31 |
| 3: | A Home in the Outer Solar System | 56 |
| 4: | Building a Rocket Quickly | 78 |
| 5: | The Health Barrier to Deep Space | 101 |
| 6: | Robots in Space | 122 |
| 7: | Solutions for Long Journeys | 148 |
| 8: | The Psychology of Space Travel | 170 |
| 9: | Who Gets to Go? | 196 |
| 10: | Why Move into Space? | 220 |
| 11: | Settling a Frontier | 248 |
| 12: | The Step after Next | 275 |
| Acknowledgments | 297 | |
| Index | 298 | |
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