This book is a display of technology and operations, including several illustrations that will show a very different future for us in space. There is NO warp speed or slipstreams or tractor beams, phasers and photon torpedoes. There is just plain vanilla technology that does not require us to rewrite the laws of physics, but oh what plain vanilla technology we have here. This is the generation that gets to go out there; all the way out there.
  This book contains the biggest surprises the human race has had for about a hundred years; longer. From the light bulb to the mapping of the human genome, everybody knew they were coming for over a decade; nobody even remotely suspects that this is coming. We're talking about space exploration here and we're talking about the real world. With this in mind you are invited to try and guess what is the biggest surprise in this book.
    Here's a little leg up: If you think it will take us twelve years traveling time to get out to the Kuiper Belt, or even twelve months for that matter, then your world is about to be rocked unlike it has ever been rocked. Nobody is prepared for what is inside this book.