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Back To The Moon

Back To The Moon

by Les Johnson (Author)

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    Mass Market Paperback 2012

    $24.10
Synopsis

  • The space race is back on. While NASA stages a 50th anniversary return to the Moon, a gritty private company puts together its own moonshot, complete with space tourists in tow. Across the globe, the Chinese are determined to arrive first this ti

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Format: Mass Market Paperback
 Pages: 416
 Edition: Reprint
 Publisher: Baen Books
Published: 10 Jan 2012
ISBN 10: 145163773X
ISBN 13: 9781451637731

Author Bio
Dr. Travis S. Taylor has worked on various programs for the Department of Defense and NASA for the past twenty years. His expertise includes advanced propulsion concepts, very large space telescopes, space based beamed energy systems, future combat technologies, and next generation space launch concepts. Taylor is also the author of pulse-pounding, cutting edge science fiction novels such as the highly-popular One Day on Mars, Tau Ceti Agenda and his ground-breaking Warp Speed series and a regular on the History Channel's Life After People and The Universe series.

Les Johnson is a NASA physicist and author. By day, he serves as the Deputy Manager for the Advanced Concepts Office at the NASA George C. Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama. In the early 2000s, he was NASA's Manager for Interstellar Propulsion Research and later managed the In-Space Propulsion Technology Project. He was technical consultant for the movie Lost in Space and has appeared on the Discovery Channel series, Physics of the Impossible in the How to Build a Starship episode. He has also appeared in three episodes of the Science Channel series Exodus Earth. In his spare time he writes popular science books and articles, including Solar Sails: A Novel Approach to Interplanetary Travel, Living Off the Land in Space: Green Roads to the Cosmos and Paradise Regained: The Regreening of Earth.