The Promise of Space

By Arthur C. Clarke

Book Overview

No Synopsis Available.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0006BUQQG
• ISBN13: 9781114496095
• Release Date: January 1968
• Publisher: Harper & Row
• Length: 325 Pages
• Weight: 1.70 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Right up there with Cosmos

Arthur C. Clarke's The Promise of Space is right up there with Cosmos. Written in 1968, it's quite dated. For example, it says that we could have a manned mission to Mars by 1975. This, unfortunately, never happened. In 1975, we had Apollo-Soyuz. It also says that we can get to the closest star, Alpha Centauri, in ten thousand years. I'm not a scientist but in my layman's opinion, if we could put a man on the moon, we could probably build a starship capable of traveling faster-than-light to take us there. Orion could probably be converted to go faster than the speed of light. Although according to Einstein, this is impossible, it shouldn't stop us. If we can develop a drive system capable of taking us to the nearest stars. The so-called "experts" say it's impossible to go on a star trek. These are the same "experts" who said: "If God had intended for man to fly, He would have given him wings." World War II, more than anything, got us to the Moon. It was the V-2 that got us there. The progression was V-2, Atlas, Titan, and the Saturn V. Still the tallest rocket ever built. We must build starships capable of FTL travel. Space travel's been a staple of science fiction since the 1930s. The Promise of Space starts with a history of the space program up until 1968. It ends with speculation about the future. Read this book. Then read Carl Sagan's Cosmos and this is important for you high school students, drop me an e-mail book report, don't worry. You won't be graded on it. I'm not a teacher.