Documentary on DVD: Space : the longest goodbye<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n Fiction book: Girlfriend on Mars<\/strong><\/em><\/a> by Deborah Willis<\/p>\n Science fiction book: The strange<\/strong><\/em><\/a> by Nathan Ballingrud<\/p>\n NASA completes a year-long Mars mission called CHAPEA (Crew Health and Performance Exploration Analog) on July 6, 2024. For 378 days, four ordinary people \u2014 with master\u2019s degrees in a STEM field \u2014 have been living in Mars Dune Alpha, a 1,700-square-foot habitat built inside a warehouse at the Johnson[Read more]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":42,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[10,12,1],"tags":[3252,402,165,8593,3352,676,3562,5154],"class_list":["post-52669","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-dvds","category-reference","tag-books","tag-fiction","tag-humor","tag-isolation-experiments","tag-mars","tag-nonfiction","tag-science-ficiton","tag-space-travel"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pd0CXx-dHv","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52669","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/42"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=52669"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52669\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":52681,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52669\/revisions\/52681"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52669"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52669"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52669"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"https:\/\/secure.syndetics.com\/index.aspx?isbn=9781635768800\/mc.gif&upc=&client=rivervega&type=unbound\")
<\/a>SpaceX, Blue Origin, and Virgin Galactic are building fleets of space vehicles to make interplanetary travel as affordable as Old-World passage to America. We will settle on Mars, and with our knowledge of the planet, analyzed in depth by Dr. Zubrin, we will utilize the resources and tackle the challenges that await us. What will we build? Populous Martian\u00a0city-states producing air, water, food, power, and more. Zubrin’s Martian economy will pay for necessary imports and generate income from varied enterprises, such as real estate sales–homes that are airtight and protect against cosmic space radiation, with fish-farm aquariums positioned overhead, letting in sunlight and blocking cosmic rays while providing fascinating views. Zubrin even predicts the Red Planet customs, social relations, and government \u2014 of the people, by the people, for the people, with inalienable individual rights \u2014 that will overcome traditional forms of oppression to draw Earth immigrants. After all, Mars needs talent.<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/secure.syndetics.com\/index.aspx?isbn=\/mc.gif&upc=738329265779&client=rivervega&type=unbound\")
<\/a>In the next decade, NASA will send astronauts to Mars for the first time. Separated from Earth, and unable to communicate with the ground in real-time, crew members will experience extreme isolation that could gravely affect their three-year journey. This Sundance-premiering documentary follows a savvy NASA psychologist tasked with protecting daring space explorers. Ido Mizrahy’s documentary “Space : the longest goodbye<\/strong><\/em><\/a>,” explores issues facing plans for a manned mission to Mars. The challenge is to not only figure out how to physically prepare astronauts for 3+ years in space, but also psychologically.<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/secure.syndetics.com\/index.aspx?isbn=039328591X\/mc.gif&upc=&client=rivervega&type=unbound\")
<\/a> Amber Kivinen is moving to Mars. Or at least, she will be if she wins a chance to join MarsNow. She and 23 reality TV contestants from around the world \u2014 including attractive Israeli soldier Adam, endearing fellow Canadian Pichu, and an assortment of science nerds and wannabe influencers \u2014 are competing for two seats on the first human-led mission to Mars, sponsored by billionaire Geoff Task. Meanwhile Kevin, Amber\u2019s boyfriend of 14 years, was content going nowhere until Amber left him \u2014 and their hydroponic weed business \u2014 behind. Since the technology to come home doesn\u2019t exist yet, would Amber really leave everything behind to be a billionaire\u2019s Martian guinea pig? Sure, the rainforest is burning, Geoff Task has bought New Zealand, and Kevin might be a little depressed, but isn\u2019t there some hope left for life on Earth?<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/secure.syndetics.com\/index.aspx?isbn=9781534449954\/mc.gif&upc=&client=rivervega&type=unbound\")
<\/a>New Galveston, Mars: Fourteen-year-old Anabelle Crisp sets off through the wastelands of the Strange to find Silas Mundt\u2019s gang who have stolen her mother\u2019s voice, destroyed her father, and left her solely with a need for vengeance.\u00a0Since Anabelle\u2019s mother left for Earth to care for her own ailing mother, her days in New Galveston have been spent at school and her nights at her laconic father\u2019s diner with Watson, the family Kitchen Engine and dishwasher as her only companion. When the Silence came, and communication and shipments from Earth to its colonies on Mars stopped, life seemed stuck in foreboding stasis until the night Silas Mundt and his gang attacked.\u00a0Ballingrud\u2019s novel is haunting in its evocation of Anabelle\u2019s quest for revenge amidst a spent and angry world accompanied by a domestic Engine, a drunken space pilot, and the toughest woman on Mars.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"