“The Two Body Problem & Applications is a rigorous technical manual applying classical orbital mechanics and FORTRAN-based trajectory optimization to Earth-to-Mars mission planning. It is a demanding, code-driven text aimed squarely at engineers who want implementation, not inspiration.”
KEYWORDS: science, astronomy, spirituality, creative nonfiction, psychology, Mars, space exploration, future science, new age, philosophy, technology
337 pages 6x9 Trade book Available as a Paperback, PDF book, or ebook Read a 15-page preview at Blurb.com
The Loneliness of the Long-Distance Trajectory
William H. Clark II has no interest in making orbital mechanics comfortable. The Two Body Problem & Applications is a FORTRAN-laced dispatch from the serious fringe of aerospace engineering — rigorous, unadorned, and quietly magnificent in its refusal to condescend. Clark plots Earth-to-Mars trajectories with the same unmediated intensity he brings to everything: no hand-holding, no decorative prose, no apologies for the mathematics. In an era of glossy science communication and TED-talk cosmology, this book is almost aggressively unfashionable. Which is, of course, precisely why it endures. The Red Planet has never felt so calculable, or so hard-won.
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