Beyond the Saga of Rocket Science: In Space To Stay

by Walter Sierra

Overview

The Never-Ending Frontier culminates the Beyond the Saga of Rocket Science series by taking you on a journey from the present to the future. The Soviet Union steadily matured its Intercontinental Ballistic Missiles (ICBMs), Submarine-Launched Ballistic Missiles (SLBMs), civilian launch vehicles, and tactical missiles across a broad front to reach approximate parity with the United States, only to see it all crumble with the Soviet empire's collapse in late 1991. The book explains how Russia resurrected its space programs and maintains a respectable presence in space today.
This book goes on to take you inside today's burgeoning commercial space efforts (mostly in the United States) and the latest government space programs and launch vehicles worldwide. You'll learn why the "death" of rocket science as we know it today is not that far away, and what is most likely to replace rockets as we known them.
Finally you'll be taken way beyond rocket science with thought-provoking and well-researched chapters on superintelligent computers; far-out propulsion systems that are technically feasible; the search for extraterrestrial intelligence (where are they?); humanity's accelerating evolution (where is it going, and how long will it take?); cosmology (how many universes are there?; is space infinite?); physics (is a theory of everything possible?); the long-neglected spiritual evolution of our race that scientists fail to mention, but that will play a dominant role in where we're going in the future; and finally what awaits us in the afterlife. Read this book if you seek answers to these perplexing questions: Does God really exist? Why are we here?
Why does evil seem more powerful than good if God's all-powerful? What happens after we die?

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781648265068
Publisher:	Walter Sierra LLC
Publication date:	12/31/2021
Series:	Beyond the Saga of Rocket Science , #4
Edition description:	Wa R Sierra LLC ed.
Pages:	532
Product dimensions:	8.50(w) x 11.00(h) x 1.07(d)

About the Author

Prolific author and space transportation systems expert with 45+ years of progressive experience in systems engineering and integration of aerospace and defense systems, systems analysis and trade studies, formulation of system requirements, verification, and validation. Areas of expertise include planning and executing complex projects, product definition and development, project and program requirements definition, verification planning and execution, process improvement, problem solving, optimal balancing among conflicting requirements for performance, cost, reliability, and risk. Expertise in building high performance work teams, and leading teams to deliver exceptional customer service.
Walter Sierra has worked in a variety of assignments from staff engineer to branch supervisor, in locations from major rocket firms in California to the halls of the Pentagon in Washington, D.C., and many places in between. Author of two books (1999/2001) for AIAA Education Series on systems engineering and integration related to complex space transportation systems and associated systems analysis, trade studies, and design: Space Transportation: A Systems Approach to Analysis and Design (1999) and Design Methodologies for Space Transportation Systems (2001). Author of a four-book series (2021) entitled Beyond the Saga of Rocket Science which is easily readable for those interested in the history of the world's space programs: (1) The Dawn of the Space Age, (2) Avoiding Armageddon, (3) In Space To Stay, (4) The Never-Ending Frontier. These books have received excellent reviews by Kirkus Reviews, the US Review of Books, Foreword Clarion Reviews, Pacific Book Review, and Blue Ink Review.