A Short History of Nearly Everything
by Bill Bryson | 
Being Mortal
by Atul Gawande | 
What If?
by Randall Munroe | 
Godel, Escher, Bach
by Douglas R. Hofstadter | 
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
by Rebecca Skloot | 
Stiff
by Mary Roach | 
A Brief History of Time
by Stephen Hawking | 
Outliers
by Malcolm Gladwell | 
The God Delusion
by Richard Dawkins | 
The Selfish Gene
by Richard Dawkins | 
Why We Sleep
by Matthew Walker | 
Cosmos
by Carl Sagan | 
Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman
by Richard P. Feynman | 
The Demon-Haunted World
by Carl Sagan | 
The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat
by Oliver Sacks | 
The Hot Zone
by Richard Preston | 
Astrophysics for People in a Hurry
by Neil deGrasse Tyson | 
Last Chance to See
by Douglas Adams | 
The Hidden Life of Trees
by Peter Wohlleben | 
Thinking, Fast and Slow
by Daniel Kahneman |
"Interplanetary Outpost" follows the mission architecture template of NASA's plan for Human Outer Planet Exploration (HOPE), which envisions sending a crew to the moon Callisto to conduct exploration and sample return activities. To realize such a mission, the spacecraft will be the most complex interplanetary vehicle ever built, representing the best technical efforts of several nations. A wealth of new technologies will need to be developed, including new propulsion systems, hibernation strategies, and revolutionary radiation shielding materials. Step by step, the book will describe how the mission architecture will evolve, how crews will be selected and trained, and what the mission will entail from launch to landing. However, the focus of "Interplanetary Outpost" is on the human element. The extended duration, logistical challenges, radiation concerns, communication lag times, isolation, and deleterious effects on the human body will conspire to not only significantly impair human performance but also affect the behavior of crewmembers. This book addresses each of these issues in detail while still providing the reader with a background to the necessary elements comprising such a mission.