DESTINATION MARS: THE STORY OF OUR QUEST TO CONQUER THE RED PLANET
Book ID/图书代码： 17C00425
English Summary/英文概要： Mars is back. Suddenly everyone – from Elon Musk to Ridley Scott to Donald Trump – is talking about going to the Red Planet.
When the Apollo astronauts walked on the Moon in 1969, many people imagined Mars would be next. However NASA’s Viking 1, which landed in 1976, was just a robot. The much-anticipated crewed mission failed to materialise, defeated by a combination of technological and political challenges.
Four decades after Viking and almost half a century after Apollo technology has improved beyond recognition – as has politics. As private ventures like SpaceX seize centre stage from NASA, Mars has undergone a seismic shift – it’s become the prime destination for future human expansion and colonisation.
But what’s it really like on Mars, and why should anyone want to go there? How do you get there and what are the risks? Astrophysicist and science writer Andrew May answers these questions and more, as he traces the history of our fascination with the Red Planet.
What’s it really like on Mars, and why
should anyone want to go there? How
do you get there and what are the risks?
Astrophysicist and science writer Andrew
May answers these questions and more, as
he traces the history of our fascination with
the Red Planet.
Chinese Summary/中文概要： 火星话题又热起来了。突然间，所有人——从埃隆·马斯克到里德利·斯科特再到唐纳德·特朗普——都在谈论去红色星球。1969年，当阿波罗号宇航员踏上月球时，许多人认为火星将是下一个目标。然而，1976年登陆的美国宇航局的维京1号只是一个机器人。由于技术和政治上的双重挑战，这项备受期待的载人任务未能实现。
在“维京”号发射40年后，在“阿波罗”号发射近半个世纪后，技术的进步已今非昔比，政治的格局也不同以往了。随着SpaceX等私人企业从NASA手中占据中心舞台，火星经历了一场巨大的转变——它已经成为未来人类扩张和殖民的主要目的地。
但是火星到底是什么样子的呢?为什么会有人想去那里呢?你如何到达那里，有什么风险?天体物理学家和科学作家安德鲁·梅在追溯我们对这颗红色星球着迷的历史时，回答了这些问题以及更多问题。
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About the Author/作者介绍： 安德鲁·梅(Andrew May)是一名自由撰稿人和前科学家，拥有天体物理学博士学位。他在Icon的热科学系列中写了五本书：《目标火星》(Destination Mars)、《宇宙撞击》(Cosmic Impact)、《天体生物学》(Astrobiology)、《太空业务》( The Space Business)和《音乐科学》。作者定居在萨默塞特郡。Andrew May obtained his PhD in astrophysics from the University of Manchester in 1982. After a 30-year career spanning academia, the civil service and private industry he now works as a freelance writer and science consultant. He has written on subjects as diverse as the physical sciences, military technology, British history and the paranormal. His recent books include pocket-sized biographies of Newton and Einstein and an eye-opening study of the relationship between pseudoscience and science fiction. He lives in Somerset.
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