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EDITORIAL INFORMATION

From Buck Rogers and winged rocket ships to televised lunar landings and the exploration of Mars, space travel has gone from fantasy to reality in just fifty years. Where will we be fifty years from now? In 1949, in the provocative book The Conquest of Space, Hollywood special effects artist Chesley Bonestell depicted how the Moon and planets might appear to the first explorers of these new worlds. His renditions, and those of fiction writers, filmmakers, scientists, and politicians, offered bold predictions of what was to come beyond Earth's orbit. Imagining Space juxtaposes these early visions with our real achievements to date, and further projects what's next in our exploration of deep space. Chielf NASA historian Roger D. Launius and Howard E. McCurdy of American University bring a fresh, interdisciplinary approach to looking at where we've been and where we're going. With their engaging text and more than 150 spectacular photographs and artists' renderings, this book anticipates new generations of spacecraft, the promise of recreational and commuter space travel, space commerce and ecology, lunar research stations, human exploration of Mars, and other far-reaching subjects. A foreword by Ray Bradbury opens worlds of possibility, and the book that follows gives a true reading of our spirit of adventure in the next frontier.

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GENERAL TABLE OF CONTENTS

-Contents.

-Foreword: Going A'journey (Ray Bradbury).

-Preface.

-1. Wondrous Visions.

-2. The Search for Extraterrestrial Life.

-3. Lure of the Red Planet.

-4. Getting There.

-5. The Human Element.

-6. The Commercial Space Frontier.

-7. Space Warfare.

-8. The Greening of Space.

-9. Understanding the Universe.

-Epilogue: A Hopeful Future.

-Acknowledgments.

-A Library of Basic Books on Space.

-Credits.

-Index.