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  schema location: http://www.loc.gov/mods/v3 http://www.loc.gov/standards/mods/v3/mods-3-2.xsd
  title info:
    title: Living Off the Land in Space
    sub title: Green Roads to the Cosmos
  name:
    name part: Matloff, Gregory L.
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  name:
    name part: Johnson, Les.
    role:
      role term: author.
  name:
    name part: Bangs, C.
    role:
      role term: author.
  name:
    name part: SpringerLink (Online service)
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: xxu
    date issued: 2007
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: electronic
    form: electronic resource
    reformatting quality: access
    form: remote
    extent: XIV, 247 p. online resource.
  abstract: A number of new space-propulsion technologies- including the solar sail, the solar-electric rocket, solar-thermal propulsion, aerocapture, tethers and advanced chemical propulsion- are becoming operational or are in an advanced state of development. This book draws parallels with the settlement of terrestrial frontiers to investigate how new space propulsion techniques may help future space settlers exploit extraterrestrial resources to establish independence from the Earth. "Living Off the Land in Space," a collaboration among two space scientists and an artist, is illuminated with many NASA-derived computer-generated images, including drawings, and presents the human (as well as the technological) side of space settlement. It will be an inspiring and indispensible source for those wishing to share in this great adventure.
  table of contents: The Old Frontier -- The New Frontier -- The Rocket and Its Limits -- The First “Green” Space Technologies -- Probes to the Planets:Where We've Been on Our Journey -- Probes to the Stars:Concept Studies -- Breaking Out into Space:Visionary Futures -- Thinking Interstellar -- Technological Readiness -- Space Brakes(“Living of the Land” by Using a Planetary Atmosphere) -- The Ion Trial -- The Orbital Steam Locomotive -- Sky Clippers -- Art or Science? -- Space Beanstalks -- Chemical Propulsion for Space Exploration: Good for Yesterday,Today and Tomorrow -- Human Exploration -- Defending the Earth -- Space Miners -- Some Exotic Possibilities -- Sights on Centauras.
  note: by Gregory L. Matloff, Les Johnson, C. Bangs.
  subject:
    topic: Popular works
  subject:
    topic: Observations, Astronomical
  subject:
    topic: Astronomy
    topic: Observations
  subject:
    topic: Astronomy
  subject:
    topic: Aerospace engineering
  subject:
    topic: Astronautics
  subject:
    topic: Popular Science
  subject:
    topic: Popular Science in Astronomy
  subject:
    topic: Aerospace Technology and Astronautics
  subject:
    topic: Astronomy, Observations and Techniques
  classification: QB1-991
  classification: 520
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Springer eBooks
  identifier: 9780387683164
  identifier: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-68316-4
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    record creation date: 100301
    record change date: 20151204170436.0
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