New insights into space travel

Many new concepts and futures are explored in this book. It will be interesting to see how many come true in the future

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Excellent

Excellent thanks everyone should experience this book to broaden the mind and realise the importance of humanity to venture into space

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A glimpse into the final frontier

I gave this book a listen as it was free on the Plus Catalogue. I was pleasantly surprised. The book was superbly written, thoroughly researched and the narration was excellent.

The book provides fascinating insights into the technical challenges that humans must overcome in order to become a multi-planetary species. I particularly enjoyed the discussion of how prolonged exposure to low-gravity environments adversely affects human health. This is an important factor that is seldom discussed when individuals like Elon Musk promote the idea of colonising Mars.

The book left me contemplating whether human space exploration is a waste of resources. For the foreseeable future, it might be cheaper and safer if we explore the universe using artificial intelligence & telescopes?

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Very dry... but interesting

It's a very dry lecture sort of book on the topic of space travel from a realistic point of view (not the fantasy and dream view),... but very interesting.

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A truly amazing book!

This may be the most interesting book I have ever read.

Meticulously detailed and well-researched it describes the many challenges of colonising the solar system and explains the potential solutions. It sets out a clearly thought out plan of how (and why) humans will one day leave the earth and start to live and work on other solar system bodies. Achievements in space travel thus far are supplemented with leading edge research to explain exactly what might be possible and roughly when. Importantly, it is not afraid to critique the less feasible ideas too. This book makes everything suddenly feel incredibly real and no longer the stuff of science fiction.

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Balancing dreams with reality

Thoroughly enjoyed the book, it answered a lot of my questions such as “but why can’t just build a base on the Moon, surely can’t be that difficult” – well, this explains the reasons why it’s difficult but not impossible and how we could go about settling on the Moon and other planets and objects in our solar system. The book explores the impact on the human body, the science of travel and settlement as well as the high level economics of space exploration and the benefits it could bring. The narration is superb with Donald Corren conveying a perfect mix of enthusiasm and scepticism

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Dry but enjoyable

Interesting if cynical speculation on the future of space travel and colonisation. Probably contains nothing that a seasoned space enthusiast wouldn't have already known about.

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Fascinating and insightful.

A great tale, giving the true facts about expanding the human race into our local Solar System. One thing stands out, its not going to happen in our lifetime or the next! The cost alone for the gains isn't worth it at all. We need to sort out this planet before we tramp over others. Still, someone needs to pave the way, wether NASA, ESA, China, Russia or private enterprises, we do need to explore. Great book giving us home truths.

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Making space travel and habitation relatable

The author has done an excellent job of de-mystifying space travel and off-Earth habitation. This book explains clearly the key issues that shape the problems of space exploration, our current solutions and what is conceivably possible. It helps to put historic, current and speculative future planned space endeavours into perspective and context making the whole subject much easier to relate to.
Bravo!

Who should read it?
Anyone with an interest in the advances of space exploration and wants to join the dots. Especially for those with a scientific and/or engineering background.

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informative, funny and very interesting

informative, funny and very interesting read. He identifies, assesses and explains a number of potential scenarios in a very engaging manner. I really enjoyed this.

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