Spacefarers: How Humans Will Settle the Moon, Mars, and Beyond

by Christopher Wanjek

Book Overview

A Telegraph Best Book of the Year

A wry and compelling take on the who, how, and why of near-future colonies in space. From bone-whittling microgravity to eye-popping profits, the risks and rewards of space settlement have never been so close at hand.

More than fifty years after the Apollo 11 moon landing, why is there so little human presence in space? Will we ever reach Mars? What will it take to become a multiplanet...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 067498448X
• ISBN13: 9780674984486
• Release Date: April 2020
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 400 Pages
• Weight: 1.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.6" x 5.9" x 8.4"