The next space age /

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Imprint:New York : H.W. Wilson Co., 2008.
Description:ix, 187 p. : ill. ; 26 cm.
Language:English
Series:Reference shelf ; v. 80, no. 5
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Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/7409525
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Other authors / contributors:Mari, Christopher.
ISBN:9780824210823 (alk. paper)
0824210824 (alk. paper)
Notes:Includes bibliographical references (p. [173]-184) and index.
Table of Contents:
  • To the moon and beyond / Charles Dingell, William A. Johns, and Julie Kramer White
  • To the moon! (in a minivan) / Charles Fishman
  • Can we survive on the moon? / Guy Gugliotta
  • Science versus exploration / Michael Griffin
  • Experts to discuss U.S. space plan / John Schwartz
  • China's space leadership / Leonard David
  • New challengers emerge, threatening to take the lead / Guy Gugliotta
  • China's space ambitions / Phillip C. Saunders
  • China's space program / William S. Murray III and Robert Antonellis
  • To reach for the moon / Melinda Liu and Mary Carmichael
  • Snubbed by U.S., China finds new space partners / Jim Yardley
  • Not your father's space program / Glenn Harlan Reynolds
  • Space travel for fun and profit / Katherine Mangu-Ward
  • Space business booming along the southwest "rocket belt" / Leonard David
  • Space race II / Michael Milstein
  • Zero G, zero tax / Dennis Wingo
  • Mariner IV to Mars and more / Katherine Bracher
  • Inside the Mars Rover missions / Bill Farrand
  • What we learned on Mars / Ivan Semeniuk
  • Lander finds ice on Mars, scientists say / David Brown
  • Life on Mars? / Carl Zimmer
  • Ask the experts / Scientific American
  • Spacecraft behaving badly / Neil deGrasse Tyson
  • Go boldly, Voyager / Tim Appenzeller
  • Cosmic flock / Dan Cray
  • Michel Mayor / Christopher Mari
  • Record fifth planet discovered around distant star / JR Minkel
  • The new search for distant planets / Geoffrey W. Marcy
  • Where is life hiding? / Margaret Turnbull
  • Searching for Earth's history among Earth-like worlds / Lisa Kaltenegger
  • Where are they? / Nick Bostrom.