This text is an introduction to the space missions and machinery that will change the world as we know it in the first 20 years of the 21st century. The book outlines the future steps into space, from the on-orbit operations of the International Space Station to scientific exploration at the farthest reaches of our solar system. It offer previews of a new generation of launch vehicles whose aim is to open space to paying passengers and of spacecrafts bound for comets, asteroids, Mars, and beyond, as well as describing and detailing the contraptions, gizmos, gadgets, and contrivances that may serve as our homes in near space and our senses in the distant reaches of space.
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Richard Wagner is a freelance writer who co-authored with Robert Zubrin, The Case for Mars and has served as editor of Ad Astra, a magazine of space exploration and development. He lives in Northampton, Massachusetts with his wife and three daughters. Howard Cook is a designer who has created everything from mission patches for space shuttle flights to weaponry for the television Star Trek: Voyager.
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