Colonizing the Planets - The Factual Story of Manned Interplanetary Flight into the 21st Century PDF
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rrmr; I The Factual Storyof Manned Interplanetary Flight into the21stCentury r A k i by BERGAUST ERIC U. K. 5629.4354 1881936 Bergaust rt~i .wixdag the planets J529.4354 1881936 Bergaust Colonizing the planets Ofcu I PUBLIC LIBRARY Port Wayne and Allen County, Indiana yggarmHUMay— ALLENCOUNTYPUBLICLIBRARY sTo 3 1833 00595 3861 DRAWN r H i Colonizing the Planets The Factual Story of Manned Interplanetary Flight into the 21st Century About the Book Fact proves to be as strange as the most imaginative fiction in this book by the noted science writer Erik Bergaust. Some who think space exploration is dead will learn it's only beginning. Man must begin within the coming century to plan colonizing other planets as Earth becomes strangled by overpopulation. Shall we expand first to Mars or Venus? Author Bergaust, trained in science and an expert of the space age with forty books about it to his credit, favors Venus. He reveals how a group of world-famous scientists plan to change the atmosphere of Venus and make it habitable for humans. This fascinating book projects us into the twenty-first century as authentically as past historians described the rise and fall of empires. **w fr M »i n^TLQTTI^nT hi 1 ^4CE n&ete MRGAUST by ERIC < JL PUTNAM'S SONS E& NEW YORK G. P. \cpfs/ To my friends Dr. Wernher von Braun and his son Peter FRONTISPIECE An artist's conception of a nuclear-powered spacecraft approaching Mars. Such rocket ships may be common by the turn of the century. © Copyright 1975 by Erik Bergaust All rights reserved. Published simultaneously in Canada by Longmans Canada Limited, Toronto. SBN: TR-399-20471-7 SBN: GB-399-60961-X Library of Congress Catalog CardNumber: 75-7861 PRINTED IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA 12 up 1881936 Contents 1 The Earth's Neighbor Planets 9 2 The Red Sands of Mars 18 3 Setting Sail for Interplanetary Space 29 4 The Goddess of Beauty as a Globe 34 5 A World with No Moon Above 40 6 Challenge for Unmanned Space Probes 48 7 The First Manned Expeditions 58 8 The Next Fifty Years 66 9 Changing the Environment of Venus 76 10 Why Colonize Other Worlds? 84 Index 91
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