You may be thinking about departing our home planet forever and becoming a colonist of another world. This book was written just for you for those who will take the leap off planet and start a whole new civilization of humans on Mars.
Written by aformer NASA Space Life Sciences Advanced Life Support Engineer just to set the record straight. It is the true, surprising contemporary story of the most daring human conquest in the history of our species the epic evolving human colonization and settlement of other worlds of our solar system told in a captivating, engaging, and often humorous way by a 30-year NASA insider.
"Spellbinding game changing a bold challenge to civilization's future." Alan Stern, Principal Investigator, New Horizons Mission to Pluto, Former NASA Associate Administrator, Science Mission Directorate
Today, Elon Musk's SpaceX is building one human rated reusable spacecraft every week designed to send 100 colonists to Mars on each voyage. With this brilliant plan, SpaceX aims to colonize the Red Planet, transporting colonists and millions of tons of cargo over 250 million miles of deep space, creating the first city on another world. This is not science fiction. These ships are in construction every day at a startling pace in order to make humanity a multiplanetary species, beginning this decade.
This is why Departing Earth Forever had to be created. It is the first manual written to and for Martian colonists and for humankind back on the home planet witnessing this single most historic and momentous event in human history.
"We should carefully consider these facts and arguments as if our future as a species depends on it. Because it does!" Mike Hall, Major General, United States Air Force (Ret.)
For three decades, author and human spaceflight expert Dennis Chamberland recorded the inside view of how this historic migration was envisioned in the world's most prestigious space exploration agency. From his extensive experience plus science and engineering journals and notebooks kept over 30 years at NASA, Dennis Chamberland documents the hidden pieces of what went wrong in NASA over the past half century and how it forced the interplanetary dreams of empire into a dangerous and unsustainable position.
"A brilliant expose... the Bible for human space exploration beyond our moon." LtCol Robert S. Miller, United States Air Force (Ret.)
Departing Earth Forever: Book One reveals the clear promise of what lies ahead for humanity when we depart the green hills of Earth and employ reasonable First Principle of Human Exploration engineering solutions the astonishing new technology that will replace the old for nothing is going to stop humanity from our inevitable migration outbound.
ISBN: 9781889422336
Pages: 646
Trade paperback
QED, 2022
Good condition; cover has some creases
B49.2
