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Beyond dares to imagine an excellent future for humans in space - and then reminds us that we're already there. Individual exploration has been an unceasing engine motor of technological improvement, from the first homo sapiens to leave our African cradle to another where mankind promises to stay another world. Beyond tells the epic report of humanity departing home - and exactly how humans will soon flourish in the vast universe beyond the planet earth. A amazing and propulsive voyage through space and time, Beyond unveils how hundreds of years of space explorers - from the initial stargazers to today's cutting-edge research workers - all pull inspiration from an innate real human feeling: wanderlust. This craving to explore led us to multiply around the world, and it can be traced in our DNA. Today, the craving to find manifests itself in jaw-dropping ways: ideas for space elevators poised to displace rockets at a fraction of the price; experiments in suspending and reanimating life for ultra-long-distance travel; prototypes for solar sails that shoreline through space on the momentum of microwaves released from the planet earth. With these projects, private companies and enterprisers have the potential to outpace NASA as the market leaders in a fresh space race. Merging expert understanding of astronomy and avant-garde technology, Chris Impey guides us through the heady choices for the next hundred years of exploration. In 20 years, a captivating commercial space industry will be functioning. In 30 years, you will see small but viable colonies on the Moon and Mars. In 50 years, mining technology will have advanced enough to harvest resources from asteroids. In a hundred years, a cohort of humans created off-Earth will come of age without ever going to humanity's home planet. This isn't the products of science fiction but instead the logical extension of already available systems.
