Humans have always felt a bit crowded
on Earth and looked upward for inspiration
and a new and different life. When
the work of many scientists, engineers
and inventors made this possible, people
immediately rushed into space. Each
step was difficult and required sacrifices,
sometimes even human ones. Now
there are plans to send an astronaut
to Mars and colonize the moon, and
then ...
Perhaps the readers of this book will
be the first pilots of the first interstellar
ship from planet Earth.