We've all been there: you leave the house and check again to make sure you've packed everything. Keys, mobile phone, wallet? Then you're good to go. Unfortunately, it's not quite that simple for astronauts searching for a second Earth, because they are faced with completely different – existential – questions. Where are we flying to? Do we even have the means to do so? And once we get there, how will we survive?
Science journalist Anne-Dorette Ziems provides exciting, surprising and honest answers to these and many other questions about space flight and space colonisation. In an easy-to-understand and entertaining way, she compiles everything that is on the to-do list for our journey into space, outlines the current state of space flight and puts common science fiction scenarios to the test.
