Publisher's Synopsis
A comprehensively illustrated preview of our future in space and a review of past successes and failures. Hardy's illustrations show, for instance, how the surface of each planet and its moons was originally imagined by the writers when they worked together over 30 years ago and reveals how our knowledge has been vastly improved by data from satellites, probes and telescopes. Hardy and Moore also apply their knowledge and imagination to look into the future for space exploration and to create artists' impressions of worlds not visible with current technology.