Author: Gary Miller
Publisher: Gareth Stevens Publishing LLLP
ISBN: 9781433922428
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 52
Book Description
For thousands of years, people dreamed of rocketing into space. In 1969, we landed on the moon. Today, space explorers are pushing farther, to the planet Mars and beyond!
The Outer Limits: The Future of Space Exploration
Author: Gary Miller
Publisher: Gareth Stevens Publishing LLLP
ISBN: 9781433922428
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 52
Book Description
For thousands of years, people dreamed of rocketing into space. In 1969, we landed on the moon. Today, space explorers are pushing farther, to the planet Mars and beyond!
Publisher: Gareth Stevens Publishing LLLP
ISBN: 9781433922428
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 52
Book Description
For thousands of years, people dreamed of rocketing into space. In 1969, we landed on the moon. Today, space explorers are pushing farther, to the planet Mars and beyond!
The Outer Limits
Author: Gary Miller
Publisher: Gareth Stevens Learning Library
ISBN: 9781433922466
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 48
Book Description
This dynamic new series takes young readers from the depths of the oceans to the outer limits of the universe! Current topics, such as global warming and alternative energy, make science immediate and relevant to today's students. Current Science features up-to-the-minute information and discoveries in all areas of the curriculum-life, earth, and physical sciences, as well as space, health, and technology. Fun, timely, and highly visual, each book takes a fresh approach and has a unique appeal. Clear text presents the scope of the topic, looks at causes and effects, reviews scientific evidence, theories, and new findings, and presents opportunities for students to draw their own conclusions. A two-page, full-color infographic spread calledCS Infographic with detailed call-outs and labels illuminates the topic at hand.
Publisher: Gareth Stevens Learning Library
ISBN: 9781433922466
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 48
Book Description
This dynamic new series takes young readers from the depths of the oceans to the outer limits of the universe! Current topics, such as global warming and alternative energy, make science immediate and relevant to today's students. Current Science features up-to-the-minute information and discoveries in all areas of the curriculum-life, earth, and physical sciences, as well as space, health, and technology. Fun, timely, and highly visual, each book takes a fresh approach and has a unique appeal. Clear text presents the scope of the topic, looks at causes and effects, reviews scientific evidence, theories, and new findings, and presents opportunities for students to draw their own conclusions. A two-page, full-color infographic spread calledCS Infographic with detailed call-outs and labels illuminates the topic at hand.
The End of Astronauts
Author: Donald Goldsmith
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 0674257723
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 193
Book Description
A world-renowned astronomer and an esteemed science writer make the provocative argument for space exploration without astronauts. Human journeys into space fill us with wonder. But the thrill of space travel for astronauts comes at enormous expense and is fraught with peril. As our robot explorers grow more competent, governments and corporations must ask, does our desire to send astronauts to the Moon and Mars justify the cost and danger? Donald Goldsmith and Martin Rees believe that beyond low-Earth orbit, space exploration should proceed without humans. In The End of Astronauts, Goldsmith and Rees weigh the benefits and risks of human exploration across the solar system. In space humans require air, food, and water, along with protection from potentially deadly radiation and high-energy particles, at a cost of more than ten times that of robotic exploration. Meanwhile, automated explorers have demonstrated the ability to investigate planetary surfaces efficiently and effectively, operating autonomously or under direction from Earth. Although Goldsmith and Rees are alert to the limits of artificial intelligence, they know that our robots steadily improve, while our bodies do not. Today a robot cannot equal a geologist's expertise, but by the time we land a geologist on Mars, this advantage will diminish significantly. Decades of research and experience, together with interviews with scientific authorities and former astronauts, offer convincing arguments that robots represent the future of space exploration. The End of Astronauts also examines how spacefaring AI might be regulated as corporations race to privatize the stars. We may eventually decide that humans belong in space despite the dangers and expense, but their paths will follow routes set by robots.
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 0674257723
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 193
Book Description
A world-renowned astronomer and an esteemed science writer make the provocative argument for space exploration without astronauts. Human journeys into space fill us with wonder. But the thrill of space travel for astronauts comes at enormous expense and is fraught with peril. As our robot explorers grow more competent, governments and corporations must ask, does our desire to send astronauts to the Moon and Mars justify the cost and danger? Donald Goldsmith and Martin Rees believe that beyond low-Earth orbit, space exploration should proceed without humans. In The End of Astronauts, Goldsmith and Rees weigh the benefits and risks of human exploration across the solar system. In space humans require air, food, and water, along with protection from potentially deadly radiation and high-energy particles, at a cost of more than ten times that of robotic exploration. Meanwhile, automated explorers have demonstrated the ability to investigate planetary surfaces efficiently and effectively, operating autonomously or under direction from Earth. Although Goldsmith and Rees are alert to the limits of artificial intelligence, they know that our robots steadily improve, while our bodies do not. Today a robot cannot equal a geologist's expertise, but by the time we land a geologist on Mars, this advantage will diminish significantly. Decades of research and experience, together with interviews with scientific authorities and former astronauts, offer convincing arguments that robots represent the future of space exploration. The End of Astronauts also examines how spacefaring AI might be regulated as corporations race to privatize the stars. We may eventually decide that humans belong in space despite the dangers and expense, but their paths will follow routes set by robots.
Spaceships
Author: Ron Miller
Publisher: Smithsonian Institution
ISBN: 1588345777
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 261
Book Description
"An illustrated guide to real and imagined spaceships, and how popular culture influenced the development of each"--Provided by publisher.
Publisher: Smithsonian Institution
ISBN: 1588345777
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 261
Book Description
"An illustrated guide to real and imagined spaceships, and how popular culture influenced the development of each"--Provided by publisher.
Space Exploration
Author: Joseph Harris
Publisher: Gareth Stevens Publishing LLLP
ISBN: 9781433919893
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 68
Book Description
Examines the role of technology in space exploration, including information on the politics of space travel, the realities of living in space, economic factors, and ideas for the future.
Publisher: Gareth Stevens Publishing LLLP
ISBN: 9781433919893
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 68
Book Description
Examines the role of technology in space exploration, including information on the politics of space travel, the realities of living in space, economic factors, and ideas for the future.
The Space Industry of the Future
Author: Mark W. McElroy Jr
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 1000653269
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 208
Book Description
The Space Industry of the Future consists of the first instance of guidance for the space industry on how value creation in space can occur for the greater benefit of humanity using principles of capitalism and sustainability. The timing of this book is ideal given (1) sustainability challenges facing humanity and (2) that the growth of the commercial space economy is now occurring at a rate never seen before. This book presents an opportune guide written for technical, business, and policy practitioners alike that frames how this industry growth should occur from an integrated values and commercial perspective. This perspective is presented in the context of the modern technical capabilities of space systems relative to the world’s greatest problems. The guidance contained in this book for the growing commercial space industry includes considerations beyond profit seeking alone. This guidance is founded on a bespoke value creation criteria to apply in the context of for-profit outer space activities that, if used, will result in the maximum value creation that a company is capable of. The criteria are developed and presented through a rigorous discussion on capitalism, economics, value theory, the circular economy, stakeholder management, and ethics. The value creation criteria are then discussed at length in relation to the space industry. The primary audience for this book is practitioners within the space industry; this includes investors, business managers, policy makers, engineers, and scientists. The secondary audience includes students and researchers, as well as a growing range of parties interested in space policy and entrepreneurship.
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 1000653269
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 208
Book Description
The Space Industry of the Future consists of the first instance of guidance for the space industry on how value creation in space can occur for the greater benefit of humanity using principles of capitalism and sustainability. The timing of this book is ideal given (1) sustainability challenges facing humanity and (2) that the growth of the commercial space economy is now occurring at a rate never seen before. This book presents an opportune guide written for technical, business, and policy practitioners alike that frames how this industry growth should occur from an integrated values and commercial perspective. This perspective is presented in the context of the modern technical capabilities of space systems relative to the world’s greatest problems. The guidance contained in this book for the growing commercial space industry includes considerations beyond profit seeking alone. This guidance is founded on a bespoke value creation criteria to apply in the context of for-profit outer space activities that, if used, will result in the maximum value creation that a company is capable of. The criteria are developed and presented through a rigorous discussion on capitalism, economics, value theory, the circular economy, stakeholder management, and ethics. The value creation criteria are then discussed at length in relation to the space industry. The primary audience for this book is practitioners within the space industry; this includes investors, business managers, policy makers, engineers, and scientists. The secondary audience includes students and researchers, as well as a growing range of parties interested in space policy and entrepreneurship.
The Future Is Disabled
Author: Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha
Publisher: arsenal pulp press
ISBN: 1551528924
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 325
Book Description
In The Future Is Disabled, Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha asks some provocative questions: What if, in the near future, the majority of people will be disabled—and what if that's not a bad thing? And what if disability justice and disabled wisdom are crucial to creating a future in which it's possible to survive fascism, climate change, and pandemics and to bring about liberation? Building on the work of her game changing book Care Work: Dreaming Disability Justice, Piepzna-Samarasinha writes about disability justice at the end of the world, documenting the many ways disabled people kept and are keeping each other—and the rest of the world—alive during Trump, fascism and the COVID-19 pandemic. Other subjects include crip interdependence, care and mutual aid in real life, disabled community building, and disabled art practice as survival and joy. Written over the course of two years of disabled isolation during the pandemic, this is a book of love letters to other disabled QTBIPOC (and those concerned about disability justice, the care crisis, and surviving the apocalypse); honor songs for kin who are gone; recipes for survival; questions and real talk about care, organizing, disabled families, and kin networks and communities; and wild brown disabled femme joy in the face of death. With passion and power, The Future Is Disabled remembers our dead and insists on our future. This updated edition includes a new chapter and afterword by the author.
Publisher: arsenal pulp press
ISBN: 1551528924
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 325
Book Description
In The Future Is Disabled, Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha asks some provocative questions: What if, in the near future, the majority of people will be disabled—and what if that's not a bad thing? And what if disability justice and disabled wisdom are crucial to creating a future in which it's possible to survive fascism, climate change, and pandemics and to bring about liberation? Building on the work of her game changing book Care Work: Dreaming Disability Justice, Piepzna-Samarasinha writes about disability justice at the end of the world, documenting the many ways disabled people kept and are keeping each other—and the rest of the world—alive during Trump, fascism and the COVID-19 pandemic. Other subjects include crip interdependence, care and mutual aid in real life, disabled community building, and disabled art practice as survival and joy. Written over the course of two years of disabled isolation during the pandemic, this is a book of love letters to other disabled QTBIPOC (and those concerned about disability justice, the care crisis, and surviving the apocalypse); honor songs for kin who are gone; recipes for survival; questions and real talk about care, organizing, disabled families, and kin networks and communities; and wild brown disabled femme joy in the face of death. With passion and power, The Future Is Disabled remembers our dead and insists on our future. This updated edition includes a new chapter and afterword by the author.
SCARY ROBOTS
Author: Lawrence J. Terlizzese
Publisher: Christian Publishing House
ISBN:
Category : Computers
Languages : en
Pages : 134
Book Description
Technophobia causes us to reflect, to stop and ask “what for?” Why are we doing this and could there be negative consequences to our actions. Technophobia is not anti-technology if we are honest no one is really anti-technology that would be a rejection of life itself. But neither does technophobia give the green light to all things technical. An altogether too common position these days is to accept technology as manna from heaven as if just the very use of it will inherently lead us in the right direction. All use is good use. Technophobia does not allow us such an easy conscience.
Publisher: Christian Publishing House
ISBN:
Category : Computers
Languages : en
Pages : 134
Book Description
Technophobia causes us to reflect, to stop and ask “what for?” Why are we doing this and could there be negative consequences to our actions. Technophobia is not anti-technology if we are honest no one is really anti-technology that would be a rejection of life itself. But neither does technophobia give the green light to all things technical. An altogether too common position these days is to accept technology as manna from heaven as if just the very use of it will inherently lead us in the right direction. All use is good use. Technophobia does not allow us such an easy conscience.
Astronautics and Space Exploration
Author: United States. Congress. House. Select Committee on Astronautics and Space Exploration
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Astronautics
Languages : en
Pages : 1570
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Astronautics
Languages : en
Pages : 1570
Book Description
Leadership and America's Future in Space
Author: Sally K. Ride
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Astronautics
Languages : en
Pages : 68
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Astronautics
Languages : en
Pages : 68
Book Description