"Almost fifty years after the beginning of space flight, Belbruno's
work offers a realistic beginning for minimum--fuel and
maximum--payload trajectories for interplanetary operations. It is
a mark of sophistication in the evolution of space travel that
simplified solutions to the vexing many-body problem are found to
have practical applications. Belbruno's three-body solution for
low-thrust minimum-fuel trajectories serves well not only the
future of space flight but helps astronomy in understanding the
sometimes erratic motions of celestial bodies."--Edgar D. Mitchell,
Apollo 14 astronaut
""Fly Me to the Moon" is a fast, easy read that explains in
simple nonscientific terms very complex matters of celestial
mechanics, and it is delightful reading for students and
professionals to update or learn very important new background
materials. It is also a must-read for the
lawyer-scientist."--Ambassador Edward R. Finch, Jr.
"This is an excellent book. The author succeeds in writing an
exciting story about his research on low-fuel space travel, a
subject that is not widely known but that will interest many
readers. Moreover, the mathematical aspects of chaos in the context
of space missions is well treated at the level of the
nonexpert."--Florin Diacu, University of Victoria
"This is a good story. It is rare to see a nonpedantic book on
celestial mechanics that gives some backroom stories about
trajectory geeks. Belbruno ties very abstract concepts to real
problems and situations."--Wendell W. Mendell, NASA Johnson Space
Center, Astromaterials Research & Exploration Science
Directorate
"This is an excellent book. It is an inside look at the
important new field of chaotictrajectories by one of the masters
and originators of the field. As we continue into space, I think we
will be hearing more and more about these clever trajectories. Ed
Belbruno has covered in a beautiful and interesting way the
important applications of chaos to astrophysics and spacecraft
trajectories. He also tells a very interesting personal story of
his battles to get these trajectories used, and how he was able to
save the Hiten spacecraft and get it to the moon. This is a great
story, and he tells it very well."--Richard Gott, Princeton
University
"The author's newly discovered interplanetary highways offer a
romantic reflection of the pre-rocket, pre-airplane era, where
balloons would transport us, with hardly any energy of our own,
from one unexplored vista to another."--From the foreword by Neil
deGrasse Tyson, astrophysicist and Director of the Hayden
Planetarium, American Museum of Natural History, author of "Death
by Black Hole: And Other Cosmic Quandaries"
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