Crossing the Threshold: Advancing into Space to Benefit the Earth Review

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Crossing the Threshold: Advancing into Space to Benefit the Earth ReviewCrossing the Threshold: Advancing into Space to Benefit the Earth Written by retired NASA life support engineer Paul Wieland Crossing the Threshold is a compact 193 page book, not including a helpful but lengthy section of end notes and its very complete index, that is primarily concerned with advancing its author's arguments for continuing and better research in space exploration. The book is well-done, inexpensive, and quite clear, I would say even well-written, with a bare minimum of jargon. It also has loads of engaging quotes and lots and lots of jazzy new ideas (carbon nanotubes, space elevators, solar sails, and the like come to mind, for example) many of which will be very much less than familiar to all but true "Space Buffs."
Wieland's own non-traditional path to going to work for NASA is most likely responsible for the unique design. The book's author was born and raised in the South and did all his earlier work in botany not rocket engineering so bits of history and place --both his own and otherwise-- are sprinkled throughout. This helps liven and infuse the book with good perspective and a most pleasant feeling of optimism. Certainly what one can learn in Crossing the Threshold goes far beyond this reader's expectations for a book of this type. A report it certainly is not.
At its heart for Wieland doing future space research is (and has to be) in all of our interest, but it has to change by being more concerned with making itself relevant to the common future by keeping the complexities of modern life, the dangers and huge costs of doing more, and all the other intrinsic threats to our world ecology foremost.
I very much recommend this book to any reader who fondly remembers the halcyon days of Sputnik, Alan Shephard, and the Apollo moon shots but also to those of younger generation who have only read about these exciting exploits in books or may have even been turned off by the two dreadful Shuttle accidents. As the author might say about the latter group, it is now they who must become excited enough to take things over and to carry this important work on.
My view is that he was successful arguing his points. This is a very good read for anyone has been wondering about how relevant space research is and whether it can come to benefit either the nation or mankind and the earth in general. For a where-we-have-come-from and where-we-need-to-be-going tale and about space research no less it's quite likely the only book now available. You should see for yourself.
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