Breve storia dello spazio

The TOTALLY UP-TO-DATE story of space exploration, told as a novel.

From the early missions to the most recent space programmes: journeys, discoveries and the stories of the men who dared.

Flight into space is one of man’s greatest conquests of the twentieth century. The brave early pioneering astronauts transformed the dream of poets and visionaries of previous centuries into the science and technology that made it possible to leave Earth and for man to set foot on a different heavenly body. There was also another dream, however: that of discovering whether life had also originated outside Planet Earth, on other planets. This led to the search for past and present signs on Mars, whose early natural environment was similar to that of Earth, as well as elsewhere, on a few moons in the Solar System. Meanwhile, space probes managed to reach and show us the faces of more distant planets as far as Pluto.

The book recounts this story through characters that were its protagonists, focussing on the essential steps of an adventure and exploration that originated both in Europe and the United States but now involves other continents, too, in a shared journey from Earth into space.