gianlucajahn/guidetothegalaxy

The open-sourced guide on space exploration.

Beyond Earth

An optimistic glance into the future of human spaceflight, padded with a pinch of sarcasm.
Natively open-source and forever free of cost.

Specifications

Beyond Earth is a project with the goal of making aerospace engineering and spaceflight more accessible to the general public in consideration of the growing ubiquity we can expect for it in the following decades. Based on scientific papers, findings of recent years and educated guesses, the reader or listener is being taken on a thought experiment through what is one of the most likely scenarios for the future of human spaceflight. The project aims to leave readers and listeners with a substantial basic knowledge of spacetravel. The sensible structure and early introduction into physical systems and mathematical principles ensures that anyone, regardless of their professional background, can participate in the subject and follow history as it's written. After reading through our page, readers are very likely to have the fundamentals on spaceflight down and can engage in meaninful and constructive conversations about our possible future.

Features

• Documentation-styled e-book including images, videos and calculations covering most relevant niches in spaceflight
• AI-powered audiobooks for all articles in german and english, resulting in 5+ hours of audio content
• Account feature to track reading or listening progress of articles, cross-language
• News board fed with most recent news around the spaceflight niche
• Non-profit merchandise shop with highest-quality merch fabrics on the market
• Soundcloud integration for all audiobooks
• High-performance 3D Assets integrated via Spline & Three.js

Why?

Cause it's cool.

Table of Content

• About
• News
• Shop
• Account
• Documentation
  • Introduction
  • Fundamentals
    • Motivation
    • Destinations
  • Aerospace Engineering
    • Rockets
      • Rocket Basics
      • Rocket Engines
      • Autonomous Landing
      • Reusability
    • Boosters
    • Space Stations
  • Moon Expeditions
    • Dear Moon Mission
    • Artemis Lunar Basecamp
  • Terraforming Mars
    • Basecamp
    • First City on Mars
    • Terraforming Mars
  • Colonizing Venus
    • Why Venus now?
    • Problems of Venus
    • Venus Cloud Cities
  • Space Habitats
    • The Concept
    • Gathering Resources
    • Potential
    • Power Supply
  • Alien Life
    • Search for Alien Life
    • The Fermi Paradox
      • The Kardashev Scale
      • The Great Filter
      • Solutions
    • Conclusion
  • Distant Systems
    • Proxima Centauri
    • The Trappist System
  • Future of the Universe
    • The Local Group
    • Life in the Universe
    • Ages of the Universe
    • Death of the Universe
    • Philosophy

Technologies

• ⚛️ Next.js 12
  • Nextra
  • Server Side Rendering
  • Next.js Image & Link Components
  • Next.js I18n
• 💻 TypeScript
• 🎨 TailwindCSS / SCSS
• 💠 Hashnode
• 👕 Spring
• 🔥 Firebase
• 💨 Framer Motion
• 👓 Three.js & Spline
• 🤖 ElevenLabs