Turning Dust to Gold: Building a Future on the Moon and Mars

The expansion of our civilization to the Moon and beyond is now within our reach, technically, intellectually and financially. Apollo was not our last foray into the Solar System and already science fiction is finding it difficult to keep ahead of science and engineering fact. In 1807, few people anticipated the Wright Brothers' human flight a hundred years later. In 1869, only science fiction writers would have suggested landing people on the Moon in 1969. Similarly, other great inventions in mechanics and in electronics were not envisaged and therefore the technologies to which those inventions gave birth were only foreseen by a tiny group of visionaries.

Author: Haym Benaroya
Publisher: Praxis Publications Inc
Published: 04/08/2010
Pages: 400
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.85lbs
Size: 9.40h x 6.60w x 1.00d
ISBN: 9781441908704

Review Citation(s):
Choice 10/01/2010

About the Author
Professor Benaroya is a well-known aerospace engineer and scholar with a wealth of publications to his credit. He has researched this subject for over 17 years, primarily at Rutgers University in New Jersey.