Departing Earth Forever: Book Two - Alien Worlds: The Manual for Today's Colonists Preparing to Launch to Mars and Our Moon

The true, surprising contemporary story of the most daring human conquest in the history of our species – the epic evolving human colonization and settlement of Mars, the Moon, and other worlds of our solar system told in a captivating, engaging, and often humorous way by a 30-year NASA insider."Spellbinding… game changing… a bold challenge to civilization's future." Alan Stern, Principal Investigator, New Horizons Mission to Pluto, Former NASA Associate Administrator, Science Mission DirectorateToday, Elon Musk's SpaceX is building one human rated reusable spacecraft every weekdesigned to send 100 colonists to Mars on each voyage. With this brilliant plan, SpaceX aims to colonize the Red Planet, transporting colonists and millions of tons of cargo over 250 million miles of deep space, creating the first city on another world. This is not science fiction. These ships are in construction every day at a startling pace in order to make humanity a multiplanetary species, beginning this decade.This is why Departing Earth Forever had to be created. It is the first manual written to and for Martian colonists – and for humankind back on the home planet witnessing this single most historic and momentous event in human history."We should carefully consider these facts and arguments as if our future as a species depends on it. Because it does!" Mike Hall, Major General, United States Air Force (Ret.)Departing Earth Forever is written by a former NASA Space Life Sciences Advanced Life Support Engineer who, for three decades, recorded the inside view of how this historic migration was envisioned in the world's most prestigious space exploration agency. From his extensive experience plus science and engineering journals and notebooks kept over 30 years at NASA, Dennis Chamberland documents the next phase of humanity from the inside view.Humanity is about to exit the cradle of Earth and boldly depart forever to claim to settle new, very Alien worlds. Author Dennis Chamberland describes unexpected new technologies and for the first time describes humankind's new home planet Mars in ways few have attempted to describe before.What You Will Discover Inside Departing Earth Forever Book Two:The real Mars that is so alien and so strikingly different than Earth.The surprising winds and constant rain of Mars dust.Mars vast, hidden water deposits.How to build a radiation-proof Mars habitat that is just as safe as any home on Earth.Detailed design specs for new 21st century spacecraft that provide complete protection from any toxic space environmental conditions in interplanetary space.The surprising skills required to live, work, thrive and to build a city on Mars."Exciting… engrossing… one of the most courageous books of our time." Barbara Cox, NASA Management and Program Analyst, John F. Kennedy Space Center (Ret.) Read more