Contents


Preface

This book is part of a long journey of discovery and exploration. As a propulsion engineer at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory and now NASA Glenn Research Center, I have tried to understand the many ways of transporting scientific instruments, cargo, and people around the solar system. The issues of system engineering and the gathering together of the many components of a space vehicle is always a daunting undertaking. Teams of people working in close coordination make these space vehicles a reality and their missions a success. We have explored many corners of the Universe, but our journey seems to be only just beginning. Engineers and scientists have dreamed of humans living and thriving throughout the solar system.

The book is divided in three sections: Introduction, Planetary Explorations, and Computational Musings. The Introduction consists of a chapter introducing the readers to the book's main subject. The following section, Planetary Explorations, includes Technologies for Deviation of Asteroids and Cleaning of Earth Orbit by Space Debris; Solar System Exploration Augmented by In-Situ Resource Utilization: Processes, Vehicles, and Moon Bases for Saturn Exploration; Space Access for Future Interplanetary Missions; and Impact Models of Gravitational and Electrostatic Forces, Potential Energies, Atomic Clocks, Gravitational Anomalies, and Redshift. Computing Assisted Geometric Search for Human Design and

The chapters are inspired by the wide range of critical issues facing the space flight and astronomical communities. Asteroids remain a potential in-space resource and a threat to humanity. The Saturn In-Situ Resource Utilization chapter was inspired in part by the writings of Krafft Ehricke, a space visionary who led numerous studies of human exploration of the entire solar system. Gravity waves have been detected on a more regular basis, perhaps leading to a better understanding of the massive forces unleashed by the coalescence of black holes. An inkling of panspermia is suggested in the last paper, where the search for the evidence of simple life

**Bryan Palaszewski**

Cleveland, Ohio, USA

NASA John H. Glenn Research Center,

This book is a celebration of those dreams.

Origins is included in the last section of this book.

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