Never before has such a comprehensive collection of presentations, essays, and reminiscences been compiled to commemorate human space adventure. It is the product of the one-of-a-kind Starmus summit in Tenerife in 2011, where the renowned Russian andAmerican space pioneers met for the first time to relate the moments that enthralled humanity.
Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin, Bill Anders, Yuri Baturin, Charlie Duke, Victor Gorbatko, Alexei Leonov, Jim Lovell, Claude Nicollier, and Sergei Zhukov discuss the first spacewalk, the lunar landing, Apollo 13's dramatic recovery, the Hubble Space Telescope's repair, and much more.
Rich Goldman, Brian May, Jack Szostak, Richard Dawkins, Jill Tarter, Joseph Silk, George Smoot, Michel Mayor, Robert Williams, Adam Burrows, Garik Israelian, Kip Thorne, Sami Solanki, and Leslie Sage were among the world's leading scientists and thinkers who spoke at Starmus about our discovery of the Universe, our place within it, and the meaning of life on Earth.
This volume was originally intended to commemorate the 50th anniversary of Yuri Gagarin's first space mission, but it has subsequently been renamed to honor one of humanity's greatest heroes, Neil Armstrong, who died in 2012.
Starmus: 50 Years of Man in Space, with an introduction by famous theoretical physicist Stephen Hawking, commemorates a pivotal human moment: the first steps into space, the explosion of knowledge about our universe, and where it all possibly be leading us. It will go down in history as one of the most important novels of our time.
