Space Colonies: A Realistic Plan

Outer space has been very useful – for satellites and telescopes, but not for humans. The last man to set foot on the Moon was fifty years ago, and the International Space Station is the sole lonely outpost of humans in space. This is now changing, helped by plummeting rocket launch costs. NASA plans a Moonbase, and there are plans for a manned mission to Mars. There have long been dreams of colonising space, but this pathbreaking book makes a cogent argument that the Moon and Mars are the ...