Beyond the Known: How Exploration Created the Modern World and Will Take Us to the Stars

by Andrew Rader

Book Overview

From brilliant young polymath Andrew Rader--an MIT-credentialed scientist, popular podcast host, and SpaceX mission manager--an illuminating chronicle of exploration that spotlights humans' insatiable desire to continually push into new and uncharted territory, from civilization's earliest days to current planning for interstellar travel.

For the first time in history, the human species has the technology to destroy itself. But having...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1982123532
• ISBN13: 9781982123536
• Release Date: November 2019
• Publisher: Scribner Book Company
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.3" x 9.1"