Asteroids: How Love, Fear, and Greed Will Determine Our Future in Space

A unique, wide-ranging examination of asteroid exploration and our future in space

Human travel into space is an enormously expensive and unforgiving endeavor. So why go? In this accessible and authoritative book, astrophysicist Martin Elvis argues that the answer is asteroid exploration, for the strong motives of love, fear, and greed.

Elvis's personal motivation is one of scientific love-asteroid investigations may teach us about the composition of the solar system and the origins of li...