The Space Book Revised and Updated: From the Beginning to the End of Time, 250 Milestones in the History of Space & Astronomy

by Jim Bell

A revised and updated edition of the successful book, now featuring the most recent discoveries, technologies, and images.
 
Since the original edition of The Space Book was published in 2013, much has happened in the world of space exploration. This revised and updated edition, with a new introduction from author Jim Bell, brings the popular Milestones book up to date. It includes the most exciting and newsworthy breakthroughs, from the groundbreaking discovery of the Trappist-1 system to the technologies of the future. Take a full-color, chronological tour of the cosmos through completely new entries and spectacular images that cover developments in radio astronomy, NASA’s mission to Jupiter, the new Earth-like exoplanets, the world’s first interstellar solar sail mission, and more. Many existing entries have been updated with the results of completed and current missions, as well as illuminating recent photography.

Genres: Science

528 pages, Hardcover

Published October 2, 2018

About the author

James (Jim) F. Bell III (born July 23, 1965) is a Professor of Astronomy at Arizona State University, specializing in the study of planetary geology, geochemistry and mineralogy using data obtained from telescopes and from various spacecraft missions.
Dr. Bell's active research has involved the NASA Mars Pathfinder, Near Earth Asteroid Rendezvous (NEAR), Comet Nucleus Tour (CONTOUR), 2001 Mars Odyssey, Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, and the Mars Science Laboratory missions. His book Postcards from Mars includes many images taken by the Mars rovers. Dr. Bell is currently an editor of the space science journal Icarus and president of The Planetary Society.
He has served as the lead scientist in charge of the Panoramic camera (Pancam) color imaging system on Mars rovers Spirit and Opportunity.

Reviews

[alexander shay · Rating 4 out of 5]

Quite a book to work your way through front to back, but also an interesting one. Each left page is text describing a particular event in space history; sometimes that is an object like a planet or asteroid or the discovery of it, sometimes that is people and the discoveries they made, like Einstein's general relativity. Then on the right page is a related photo to the subject on the left. It makes the book a lot easier to read, and even though it is 500-some pages, it's not text dense and the language is very accessible. I found myself actually wanting to read it instead of forcing myself to slog through it like most nonfiction books (even when I find the topic interesting, it can be slow going with some books). Perhaps the most interesting part were the missions planned for the 2020s, none of which I knew about. Some of them seem to have been delayed (probably because of COVID) but it's been neat to see what the space science field has in the works and plans for the future.

[Joan · Rating 5 out of 5]

Have you ever wondered where our moon came from? Or if there are other Earth-like planets around other stars? Perhaps you want to know about light pollution.

Here, in the updated and revised edition, Planetary Society president Jim Bell takes readers on a chronological tour of the universe as he invites them to examine two hundred fifty space-related milestones. Starting with the Big Bang, explore the birth of the heavens before moving on to ancient observatories and observations of the universe. Explore the Space Age from the early days of Sputnik to the James Webb Space Telescope. Before investigating the included notes and further reading list, ponder the future as you speculate on the end of time and the end of the universe.

Highly recommended.

[rachel · Rating 5 out of 5]

this book is one of the most informative space books ive ever read!!!!!! it’s soo good and gives a wide variety of history of space and time!

[Jgray4241222]

Amazing

It is full of information from ancient times to the end time. Full of amazing and interesting facts on space.