Colonizing the Planets - The Factual Story of Manned Interplanetary Flight into the 21st Century

104 Pages·1975·10.146 MB·English

by  Eric Bergaust

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Colonizing the Planets
The Factual Story of Manned Interplanetary
Flight into the 21st Century
About the Book
Fact proves to be as strange as the most imaginative fiction in
this book by the noted science writer Erik Bergaust. Some who
think space exploration is dead will learn it's only beginning. Man
must begin within the coming century to plan colonizing other
planets as Earth becomes strangled by overpopulation. Shall we
expand first to Mars or Venus? Author Bergaust, trained in science
and an expert of the space age with forty books about it to his
credit, favors Venus. He reveals how a group of world-famous
scientists plan to change the atmosphere of Venus and make it
habitable for humans. This fascinating book projects us into the
twenty-first century as authentically as past historians described
the rise and fall of empires.
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FRONTISPIECE
An artist's conception of a nuclear-powered spacecraft approaching Mars. Such
rocket ships may be common by the turn of the century.
©
Copyright 1975 by Erik Bergaust
All rights reserved. Published
simultaneously in Canada by Longmans
Canada Limited, Toronto.
SBN: TR-399-20471-7
SBN: GB-399-60961-X
Library of Congress Catalog CardNumber: 75-7861
PRINTED IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
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Contents
1 The Earth's Neighbor Planets 9
2 The Red Sands of Mars 18
3 Setting Sail for Interplanetary Space 29
4 The Goddess of Beauty as a Globe 34
5 A World with No Moon Above 40
6 Challenge for Unmanned Space Probes 48
7 The First Manned Expeditions 58
8 The Next Fifty Years 66
9 Changing the Environment of Venus 76
10 Why Colonize Other Worlds? 84
Index 91