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Fly Me to the Moon: An Insider's Guide to the New Science of Space Travel

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Greatly enjoyed the factual data in this book, though the personal history components were not quite as compelling. The study and exploitation of the less stable portions of the orbital state-space opens up the solar system, allowing travel using a fraction of the energy expenditure needed for the more obvious routes, and Belbruno explains this without requiring immersion in the math.

The later sections that apply these ideas to the natural events in the evolution of orbits were especially interesting; the interactions of comets with Jupiter were a fuller explanation of fairly widely known events, but the proposed explanation of where a planet came from to do the sideswipe of Earth that created our moon and tilted our axis was totally new to me.

A fun fast read for any space junky...

I thoroughly enjoyed this book. How a weird off the wall idea turns into an accepted method to accomplish the "impossible" and save hundreds of millions of dollars.