How to Live in Space: Everything You Need to Know for the Not-So-Distant Future

Hardback

Main Details

Title How to Live in Space: Everything You Need to Know for the Not-So-Distant Future
Authors and Contributors      By (author) Colin Stuart
Physical Properties
Format:Hardback
Pages:192
Dimensions(mm): Height 220,Width 180
Category/GenrePopular science
Astronomy, space and time
ISBN/Barcode 9780233005669
ClassificationsDewey:910.919
Audience
General
Illustrations 150 clr and b&w photos

Publishing Details

Publisher Welbeck Publishing Group
Imprint Andre Deutsch Ltd
Publication Date 4 October 2018
Publication Country United Kingdom

Description

How to Live in Space is the ultimate guide to your future life in space. Physicist and astronomer Colin Stuart takes you through the training process, examines the practicalities of everyday life and looks ahead to space tourism, moon bases and interstellar travel. Presented with infographics and photographs, How to Live in Space is a scientific yet entertaining guide to living in orbit, the viability of terraforming and the long-term effects of space on the human body.

Author Biography

Colin Stuart is the author of several books, including The Big Questions in Science, and has written for The Guardian, New Scientist, BBC Focus and the European Space Agency. A fellow of the Royal Astronomical Society, the asteroid (15347) Colinstuart is named after him.