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Space 2.0: How Private Spaceflight, a Resurgent NASA, and International Partners are Creating a New Space Age Paperback – February 26, 2019
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In Space 2.0, space historian Rod Pyle, in collaboration with the National Space Society, will give you an inside look at the next few decades of spaceflight and long-term plans for exploration, utilization, and settlement.
No longer the exclusive domain of government entities such as NASA and other national agencies, space exploration is rapidly becoming privatized, with entrepreneurial startups building huge rocket boosters, satellites, rocket engines, asteroid probes, prospecting craft, and even commercial lunar cargo landers to open this new frontier. Research into ever more sophisticated propulsion and life support systems will soon enable the journey to Mars and destinations deeper in our solar system. As these technologies continue to move forward, there are virtually no limits to human spaceflight and robotic exploration.
While the world has waited since the Apollo lunar program for the next "giant leap," these critical innovations, most of which are within our grasp with today's technology, will change the way we live, both in space and on Earth. A new space age--and with it, a new age of peace and prosperity on Earth, and settlement beyond our planet--can be ours.
Speaking with key leaders of the latest space programs and innovations, Pyle shares the excitement and promise of this new era of exploration and economic development. From NASA and the Russian space agency Roscosmos, to emerging leaders in the private sector such as SpaceX, Blue Origin, Moon Express, Virgin Galactic, and many others, Space 2.0 examines the new partnerships that are revolutionizing spaceflight and changing the way we reach for the stars.
Space 2.0 is the definitive handbook for the new space age.
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Print length336 pages
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LanguageEnglish
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PublisherBenBella Books
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Publication dateFebruary 26, 2019
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Dimensions7 x 0.7 x 9 inches
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ISBN-101944648453
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ISBN-13978-1944648459
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—Geoffrey Notkin, member of the board of governors for the National Space Society and Emmy Award-winning host of Meteorite Men and STEM Journals
"Space 2.0 offers a grand overview of everything happening in space from JPL's robots to Elon Musk's biggest ideas, and that is saying a lot! Pyle makes the complex technologies and intractable policy debates behind all this accessible to any reader without dumbing them down. It's a great read for those who already excited about our new future in space and a must read for those who do not yet get it.."
—Director of the University of Southern California's Commercial Spaceflight Initiative and former NASA White House Liaison
"Space 2.0 is just the right book at just the right time . . . This is a must-read for anyone interested in the future of space exploration and development in the 21st century, and gives excellent suggestions about how you can get involved in Space 2.0."
—Daniel J. Rasky, PhD, chief of the Space Portal Office and senior scientist/engineer at the NASA Ames Research Center
"As Elon Musk celebrates more than 50 successful launches and a plethora of successful landings of his Falcon rockets and as Jeff Bezos achieves the ninth successful launch and landing of his New Shepard rocket, the space game is about to change. Rapidly. Your indispensable guide to the new space race is Rod Pyle's Space 2.0."
—Howard Bloom, author of The Lucifer Principle and Global Brain
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"The book is beautifully illustrated in color and is an excellent primer for general readers."
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“For spaceflight fanatics like me, now—the dawn of the Second Age of Space Exploration—is the most exciting time to be alive since the moon missions of the late 1960s and early '70s . . . In Space 2.0, ace science writer Rod Pyle—an advisor to NASA and the National Space Society—provides an engaging and expertly-informed explanation of how we got this far, along with a factual yet inspiring intro to our around-the-corner new adventures in space. Strap yourself in tight. It's a fascinating ride!”
—Geoffrey Notkin, member of the board of governors for the National Space Society and Emmy Award-winning host of Meteorite Men and STEM Journals
“Space 2.0 offers a grand overview of everything happening in space from JPL's robots to Elon Musk’s biggest ideas, and that is saying a lot! Pyle makes the complex technologies and intractable policy debates behind all this accessible to any reader without dumbing them down. It’s a great read for those who already excited about our new future in space and a must read for those who do not yet get it..”
—Director of the University of Southern California’s Commercial Spaceflight Initiative and former NASA White House Liaison
“Space 2.0 is just the right book at just the right time . . . This is a must-read for anyone interested in the future of space exploration and development in the 21st century, and gives excellent suggestions about how you can get involved in Space 2.0.”
—Daniel J. Rasky, PhD, chief of the Space Portal Office and senior scientist/engineer at the NASA Ames Research Center
“As Elon Musk celebrates more than 50 successful launches and a plethora of successful landings of his Falcon rockets and as Jeff Bezos achieves the ninth successful launch and landing of his New Shepard rocket, the space game is about to change. Rapidly. Your indispensable guide to the new space race is Rod Pyle's Space 2.0.”
—Howard Bloom, author of The Lucifer Principle andGlobal Brain
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- Publisher : BenBella Books (February 26, 2019)
- Language : English
- Paperback : 336 pages
- ISBN-10 : 1944648453
- ISBN-13 : 978-1944648459
- Item Weight : 1.65 pounds
- Dimensions : 7 x 0.7 x 9 inches
- Best Sellers Rank: #705,803 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #228 in Astronautics & Space Flight
- #622 in Aeronautics & Astronautics (Books)
- #1,023 in Astrophysics & Space Science (Books)
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About the author
We are on the cusp of a second space age, an era that promises to outstrip the already impressive achievements of the first. My goal as an author is to bring you readable, compelling, engaging, and entertaining narratives of space exploration, technology, and the amazing people that make it happen.
Few of us have a chance to do what we really love and get paid for it. After years of working in many industries, including television, new media, academia and others, I have been blessed with the rare opportunity to write books. I hope you enjoy them.
Like many of my generation, I was enthralled by the flights of Mercury, Gemini, and especially Apollo. As those ghostly images came down from the moon, improving on each flight, I stayed home from high school to savor every moment the networks were willing to show us (at the expense of the daytime soaps, which eventually won the airtime battle). Viking landings and journey of the Pioneers and Voyagers to the outer planets followed shortly thereafter. Writing narrative space history books, as well as space journalism for NASA/JPL, Caltech, Space.com and many other outlets, has been my passion for over a decade.
New books for 2016/2017 include "Mars: Making Contact", a lavishly illustrated history of the exploration of the red planet (Carlton Books), "Blueprint for a Battlestar", containing explanations and examples of technologies commonly found in science-fiction (Sterling Books) , and "Amazing Stories of the Space Age", featuring twenty of my favorite tales from the golden age of space exploration (Prometheus Books).
This is a thrilling time for space exploration and I hope to share this excitement with many more readers. You can follow current books and projects at www.pylebooks.com. I look forward to hearing from you.
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As the years went by, humankind's future in space seemed more like the butt of a joke than a prediction. After all, we were "The Orphans of Apollo".
After reading noted Space Journalist/Historian/Author Rod Pyle's new book "Space 2.0", all these intervening years, what is currently going on (think Elon Musk) and what is needed to get us to be a space faring race is brought keenly into focus. Is "space hard"? Yes, and Pyle lays all of the details out for us on what the technical, geo-political, governmental, human and societal challenges are and the possibilities that are in many cases being currently worked on to solve these. This is a very grounded in reality optimistic look at what our future can be and why, fundamentally, it is the future we need to be working for. As always with Pyle's writing, it is eminently readable and this is obviously a work of passion on his part, the detail and research is impeccable and very compelling to read.
I highly recommend this book, for the first time in over 35 years I not only can see humans having a future in space, I feel it is inevitable.
To help the average citizen such as me keep track of these rapidly changing developments in space, accomplished author Rod Pyle gives us an excellent guided tour. And what a tour it is! From the halls of SpaceX to NASA to orbit and beyond, we get as close to an insider view of the world of modern spaceflight as an average citizen can get.
Well informed and written text, accompanied by the right balance of illustrations and the amazing space art of artist James Vaughn help to give the average reader a current snapshot of the still-changing developments in space exploration as it stands in early 2019.
This book's not a ticket to space. But FOR NOW at least, it's the next best thing. Get it!
The book discusses both history of space research and possible future ranging from scientific research to economic exploitation of resources in space to possibility the mankind become truly interplanetary species. It describes on one hand obstacles we encounter when entering space such as radiation protection and zero-gravity environment and how to cope with such issues, and on the other hand it shows possibilities the space brings to us.
The book is very nice overview of ongoing projects in cosmic research. In US, it focusses not only on NASA but also on corporations like SpaceX, Virigin Galactic, Blue Origin and ULA (Boeing + Lockheed Martin consortium) and many others. The book also shows the latest develompent in space research programs in Russia, EU, China and India, although it is more or less US-focussed.
I would recommend the book to everybody interested in space research. It seems that the main purpose of the book was to keep you up-to-date on the latest progress in cosmic research and this aim was more than fulfiled.
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The last three chapters are about future development like "space mining" on moon and mars.
The style is journalistic, not scientific, but it is an interesting book.