Les Johnson
Author
Publisher
Baen Books
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"The year is 2065 and an accidental encounter in space leads to the discovery that we are not alone and that our continued existence may be in jeopardy. Chris Holt, working at the Space Resources Corp., discovers that one of the asteroids he surveying for mining is actually a derelict spaceship. What Earth doesn't know is that across the galaxy, a war has been underway for millennia. A war between alien civilizations that have very different ideas...
2) Graphene: the superstrong, superthin, and superversatile material that will revolutionize the world
Author
Publisher
Prometheus Books
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"The discovery in the last few decades of thousands of exoplanets orbiting nearby stars has made the age-old dream of interstellar travel a newly urgent scientific question. Initiatives like NASA's 100-Year Starship and the billionaire-funded Breakthrough Starshot are now investigating and developing new technologies that could one day enable humans to explore, perhaps even colonize, distant solar systems. This short, accessible book brings readers...
4) Rescue mode
Author
Publisher
Baen Publishing Enterprises
Pub. Date
©2014.
Language
English
Description
"The first human mission to Mars meets with near-disaster when a meteoroid strikes the spacecraft, almost destroying it. The ship is too far from Earth to simply turn around and return home. The eight-person crew must ride their crippled ship to Mars while they desperately struggle to survive. On Earth, powerful political forces that oppose human spaceflight try to use the accident as proof that sending humans into space is too dangerous to continue....
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