Why should we continue to fund NASA’s Astro-Biological division? Well, one could say to protect ourselves from biological substances from other worlds that our current species on Earth have not had the opportunity to co-evolve with, and have no immunity too. This may bother many just considering things such as Andromeda Strain, but let’s not fool ourselves, we must be ready for anything.
The scenarios proposed in many a Science Fiction work explain how serious these things are, and indeed, every step forward that NASA makes in their astro-biological division is just one potential solution to the diseases, viruses and bacteria issues we deal with that is already here on Earth. Okay, so now that I have had my say, let me recommend a very good book to you:
“Gravity” by Tess Gerritsen
This is an easy and fast read, the kind of book that you will not wish to put down, it sucks you into the story and you just have to know what comes next, as each chapter leads you to the next. Your mind will ask questions, and Tess, fully explains each and every one of them with details that will check out in science, NASA procedures and with history of human space flight.
She has well researched all the components of this story, from the history of Apollo, Skylab, MIR, ISS, Soyuz Escape Pods, Command and Control at Houston and Cape Canaveral. The secondary landing locations, the weather component, and the issues with viruses and bacteria in zero-gravity all taken to the current levels of human science, and it is for that reason that I recommend this book.
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