Space, the final frontier

Foreword / Franco Malerba

Foreword / Michael Foale

1. Space today

2. gateway to space

3. Cities and factories in space?

4. Robots in the Solar System

5. Back to the Moon

6. Mars, the red planet

7. Exploitation of the solar system

8. Beyond the pillars of Hercules

9. Other lives, other civilisations

10. Towards a galactic civilisation

App. A. Distances in the solar system and beyond

App. B. basics of astrodynamics

App. C. basics of space propulsion

App. D. Common acronyms.