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BEYOND THE KNOWN
How Exploration Created the Modern World and Will Take Us to the Stars
From brilliant young polymath Andrew Rader - an MIT-credentialed scientist, popular podcast host, and SpaceX Mission
Manager - comes an illuminating examination of the past, present, and future of exploration.
Manager - comes an illuminating examination of the past, present, and future of exploration.
We live in a unique era. For the first time in history, the human species has the technology to destroy itself. But having developed that power, humans are also able to leave Earth and voyage into the vastness of space. After millions of years of evolution, we've arrived at the point where we can settle other worlds and begin the process of becoming multi-planetary. How did we get here? What does the future hold for us?
BEYOND THE KNOWN answers these questions.
Divided into four accessible sections, the book examines major periods of discovery and rediscovery.
It brings to life exploration forays of the ancient world, in which Polynesians sailed across open ocean and Romans regularly visited India; the Age of Exploration (with a special emphasis on Chinese, Indian, African, and Native American exploration prior to contact with Europeans); scientific exploration from the Age of Reason to modern times; and finally, with an eye to the future, missions into space as the next frontier for humans to discover and ultimately settle.
A Mission Manager at SpaceX, Andrew Rader is at the forefront of space exploration. As a gifted historian and polymath, Rader,
who has won global acclaim for his stunning breadth of knowledge, is singularly positioned to tell a story of human exploration
that is also the story of scientific achievement.
Told with an infectious zeal for traveling beyond the known, this book will illuminate how very human it is to emerge from the
cave and walk toward an infinitely expanding horizon.
Andrew Rader is a historian and mission commander for SpaceX (Elon Musk's company) and holds a Ph.D. in Aerospace Engineering from MIT specializing in long duration. He earned his pilot's license at 17. In 2013, he won Discovery Channel's competitive television series "Canada's Greatest Know-it-All." He also co-hosts the weekly podcast Spellbound, which covers topics from science to economics to history and psychology. He is an avid tabletop game designer and strategic war gamer. Beyond the Known is Rader's first book for adults.
BEYOND THE KNOWN answers these questions.
Divided into four accessible sections, the book examines major periods of discovery and rediscovery.
It brings to life exploration forays of the ancient world, in which Polynesians sailed across open ocean and Romans regularly visited India; the Age of Exploration (with a special emphasis on Chinese, Indian, African, and Native American exploration prior to contact with Europeans); scientific exploration from the Age of Reason to modern times; and finally, with an eye to the future, missions into space as the next frontier for humans to discover and ultimately settle.
A Mission Manager at SpaceX, Andrew Rader is at the forefront of space exploration. As a gifted historian and polymath, Rader,
who has won global acclaim for his stunning breadth of knowledge, is singularly positioned to tell a story of human exploration
that is also the story of scientific achievement.
Told with an infectious zeal for traveling beyond the known, this book will illuminate how very human it is to emerge from the
cave and walk toward an infinitely expanding horizon.
Andrew Rader is a historian and mission commander for SpaceX (Elon Musk's company) and holds a Ph.D. in Aerospace Engineering from MIT specializing in long duration. He earned his pilot's license at 17. In 2013, he won Discovery Channel's competitive television series "Canada's Greatest Know-it-All." He also co-hosts the weekly podcast Spellbound, which covers topics from science to economics to history and psychology. He is an avid tabletop game designer and strategic war gamer. Beyond the Known is Rader's first book for adults.
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