Space: The final frontier? by Giancarlo Genta and Michael Rycroft, Cambridge University Press, £18.95/$29 ISBN 0521814030 Reviewed by Helen Gavaghan
DUST jackets can be irritatingly misleading. With its clichéd title and breathy prose of striving and challenges, Space: The final frontier? has one that falls into this category. The content is, in fact, more of an encyclopedic skim across the surface of space technology and science. Rather than addressing imponderables about our long-term future in space, as its jacket advertises, we have short sections on topics ranging from navigation satellites to the Kuiper belt and missions to Mars. However, there…
