Lost In Space迷失在太空
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作者： Greg Klerkx 著
出 版 社： 江西人民出版社
出版时间： 2005-1-1字数：版次： 1页数： 404印刷时间： 2005/01/01开本： 16开印次： 1纸张： 胶版纸I S B N ： 9780375727733包装： 平装编辑推荐
作者简介：
Greg Klerkx is a former senior manager of the SETI Institute,an independent space exploration and research institution based in California's Silicon Valley. Trained as a journalist, he won numerous newswriting awards and now divides his time between London and San Francisco. Lost in Space is his first book.
内容简介
In this sprawling and sometimes polemical account, Klerkx, formerly associated with the SETI Institute, excoriates what he sees as NASA's present-day loss of vision. During the Apollo program, NASA's goal was manned space exploration. But over the last 29 years, the agency has scaled down its vision, content to send unmanned missions to the other planets and keep human beings in earth orbit with the short-lived Skylab, the troubled shuttle fleet and the "money-gobbling" International Space Station. Klerkx draws out some of the threads in the tangled web that connects the perpetually feuding NASA fiefdoms, NASA's major suppliers (and major congressional contributors), like Boeing, and the politicians who write the checks. He believes that private-sector entrepreneurs will wrest future space exploration away from the self-serving NASA bureaucracy, which too often views space in terms of military and strategic applications. Klerkx presents the nouveaux riches businessmen investing millions in space-related projects, like Jeff Bezos of Amazon and Elon Musk, founder of Paypal, as well as eccentric visionaries like Robert Zubrin and his Mars Society. The Columbia disaster hangs over Klerkx's tale like a dark shadow.. Some readers may think Klerkx is still under the spell of his boyhood dream of being an astronaut and giving short shrift to arguments against human space exploration. But readers who share Klerkx's dream will be captivated by his vision of what needs to be done to resume manned space flights and of what humankind is capable of achieving.
目录
Prologue: Lost in Space
The Price of "Peace"
One Giant Leap
Escape Velocity
Back to the Future
The Belly of the Beast
Advance Reservations Required
Business in a Vacuum
Welcome to the Revolution
The Emperor of Mars
Mars on Earth
Lighting Out for the Territory
Afterword
Reference Notes
Acknowledgments
Index