Departing Earth Forever: Book One - Warning and Promise: The Manual for Today's Colonists Perparing to Launch to Mars and our Moon

You may be thinking about departing our home planet forever and becoming a colonist of another world. This book was written just for you – for those who will take the leap off planet and start a whole new civilization of humans on Mars.Written by aformer NASA Space Life Sciences Advanced Life Support Engineer just to set the record straight. It is the true, surprising contemporary story of the most daring human conquest in the history of our species – the epic evolving human colonization and settlement of other worlds of our solar system told in a captivating, engaging, and often humorous way by a 30-year NASA insider."Spellbinding… game changing… a bold challenge to civilization's future." Alan Stern, Principal Investigator, New Horizons Mission to Pluto, Former NASA Associate Administrator, Science Mission DirectorateToday, Elon Musk's SpaceX is building one human rated reusable spacecraft every week designed to send 100 colonists to Mars on each voyage. With this brilliant plan, SpaceX aims to colonize the Red Planet, transporting colonists and millions of tons of cargo over 250 million miles of deep space, creating the first city on another world. This is not science fiction. These ships are in construction every day at a startling pace in order to make humanity a multiplanetary species, beginning this decade.This is why Departing Earth Forever had to be created. It is the first manual written to and for Martian colonists – and for humankind back on the home planet witnessing this single most historic and momentous event in human history."We should carefully consider these facts and arguments as if our future as a species depends on it. Because it does!" Mike Hall, Major General, United States Air Force (Ret.)For three decades, author and human spaceflight expert Dennis Chamberland recorded the inside view of how this historic migration was envisioned in the world's most prestigious space exploration agency. From his extensive experience plus science and engineering journals and notebooks kept over 30 years at NASA, Dennis Chamberland documents the hidden pieces of what went wrong in NASA over the past half century and how it forced the interplanetary dreams of empire into a dangerous and unsustainable position."A brilliant expose... the Bible for human space exploration beyond our moon." LtCol Robert S. Miller, United States Air Force (Ret.)Departing Earth Forever: Book One reveals the clear promise of what lies ahead for humanity when we depart the green hills of Earth and employ reasonable First Principle of Human Exploration engineering solutions – the astonishing new technology that will replace the old for nothing is going to stop humanity from our inevitable migration outbound.What You Will Discover Inside:What it will be like to strap into an interplanetary rocket for the long voyage to another world.What you will see with your own eyes when you step off your ship onto the Martian sands.Waking on Mars in a habitat designed for another world.What you should be aware of to keep you alive and healthy on the journey to Mars and as a colonist living there.Why the nation or private corporation that implements the inevitable human space exploration design changes first will rule the space frontier."It's a rare author who underemphasizes the magnitude of his work, but Dennis Chamberland has done just that. The work could easily be titled Chamberland's Rules for Interstellar Exploration, and it should go down in history alongside such notable works as Asimov's thoughts on robotics." Milind Limaye, Physician/Commercial Pilot Read more