Karin Nickelsen is professor of the history of science at Ludwig-Maximilians-University in Munich, Germany. David P. D. Munns is associate professor of history at John Jay College, City University of New York. He is the author of A Single Sky: How an International Community Forged the Science of Radio Astronomy.
"In telling the history of human space flight from the 'bottom
up'--from a focus on human waste as opposed to human wits--Munns
and Nickelson offer an insightful look at Soviet and US experiments
in interstellar sustainability. They describe experiments with
closed systems in refreshingly open ways that illustrate how this
unglamorous research captured imaginations beyond space agencies,
including science fiction authors and projects like Biosphere 2."
--Lisa Messeri, author of Placing Outer Space: An Earthly
Ethnography of Other Worlds
"This book is a powerful and much-needed antidote to 'macho'
histories of the Space Age. In place of shining rockets and
square-jawed astronauts, Munns and Nickelsen give us a masterful
guide to the earthier aspects of humankind's attempts to live in
space. Insightful, witty, and richly detailed, this study shows us
that the problems of sanitation and waste management have been
every bit as important to our conquest of space as rocket
technology and moon walks." --Joshua Nall, author of News from
Mars: Mass Media and the Forging of a New Astronomy, 1860-1910
"This book tells an intriguing and salient story of the history of
planning for humans living in space with zero provisioning and zero
gravity, from the golden age of space flight in the 1960s to the
tentative culmination of ecological life support in the project of
Biosphere 2 in the 1990s. The narrative is entertaining and
immensely educating. Far Beyond the Moon offers a witty and
accessible story that holds all the answers to one of the most
interesting questions about space flight: what to do with human
waste in space." --Sabine Hoehler, author of Spaceship Earth in the
Environmental Age, 1960-1990
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