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The Reference Shelf: New Frontiers in Space

Table of Contents

Preface




1 Visions of Space




Space For Sale




Super Fast Travel Using Outer Space Could Be $20 Billion Market, Disrupting Airlines, UBS Predicts




Moon 2069: Lunar Tourism and Deep Space Launches a Century on from Apollo?




Soon, Hundreds of Tourists Will Go to Space: What Should We Call Them?




Space Tourism Could Have Big Impact on Climate




Space Tourism’s Rubbery Rockets May Spur Climate Change




China Plans a Solar Power Play in Space That NASA Abandoned Decades Ago




2019 Is the Year That Space Tourism Finally Becomes a Reality: No, Really




Space Solar Power: Limitless Clean Energy from Space




2 The Military in Space




In Defense of Space




The Moon’s Role in the New U.S. Space Force




Trump’s Space Force Gets the Final Frontier All Wrong




A Handshake in Space Changed US-Russia Relations: How Long Will It Last?




The U.S. Military Has Been in Space from the Beginning




Space Force or Space Corps?




Renewed Space Rivalry between Nations Ignores a Tradition of Cooperation




Trump’s Space Force Isn’t the Only Military Space Program: Here’s What China and Russia Are Up To




3 Legacy of the Space Race




Past and Future Missions




Apollo Was NASA’s Biggest Win—But Its Legacy Is Holding the Agency Back




Many People Still Believe the Moon Landing Was Fake: But Who’s Profiting?




Q&A: Shuttle Astronaut Mike Massimino on the Legacy of Apollo 11




“A Thrill Ran Through Me”: Your Memories of the Apollo 11 Moon Landing




The Mission That Changed Everything




Apollo 13: Lessons from the Successful Failure




4 NASA and the International Space Station




Space Futures




What’s Next for NASA?




What Space Stations Will Look Like in 2030




As NASA Aims for the Moon, an Aging Space Station Faces an Uncertain Future




How Americans See the Future of Space Exploration, 50 Years after the First Moon Landing




NASA Seeks to Break the “Tyranny of Launch” with In-Space Manufacturing




NASA Chooses Saturn’s Moon Titan as Its Next Destination




With Opportunity Lost, NASA Confronts the Tenuous Future of Mars Exploration




5 Space in Popular Culture




Aliens, Movies, and Fiction




Donald Trump’s Space Force Plans Analysed by a Sci-Fi Expert




The Science of Star Trek




Would Aliens Look Like Us?




More Than 1 Million People Have RSVP’d to “Storm Area 51” in the Name of Memes




Audacious & Outrageous: Space Elevators




Bibliography




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