Travel Future

Mars, a mysterious dust-ridden place, is most like Earth in its climate and seasons. Of all the possible destinations in space to travel, Mars is the most likely for humans to reach. According to esteemed scientist Louis Friedman, it may be the only destination outside the moon to ever see human footprints. Far from diminishing our future in space, Human Spaceflight lays out a provocative future for human space travel. The noted aerospace engineer and scientist says that human space exploration will continue well into the future, but space travel by humans will stop at Mars.

At 24, Paulette’s got a dream, but it’s going to take a lot of money. The best solution is to start her own bionics company and then she can fund her real vision. When she confides in a friend, he’s not sure it will work.

Я вернулся на двадцать два года в прошлое, чтобы изменить будущее. Изначальный Мир – место, в котором каждый человек может начать эволюцию в одном из нескольких направлений. Разумеется, если выживет. Сражаясь с монстрами и убивая их, люди эволюционировали, очищая свою ДНК и развивая полученные способности.

It’s the year 2525, and things aren’t looking great for Planet Earth. An endless night is coming—a super-advanced alien spaceship has stopped the world from turning, threatening the existence of every creature on the planet—and it turns out that ten-year-old Eliza Lemon is the only one who can save them! Will she be able to handle alien overlords, a doughnut-shaped spaceship, monkeys and vampire finches? And, most importantly of all, will she be able to rescue her baby brother, save the world and survive THE FUTURE?

Twelve-year-old Ming Qong is convinced that girls must have changed the world, even if they are rarely mentioned in history books. So when Ming gets the chance to go back in time, she imagines herself changing destinies from a glittering palace or an explorer's ship. Instead, she ends up in Australia in 1898, living a tough life as Flo Watson on a drought-stricken farm.

National Public Radio's Beijing correspondent Rob Gifford recounts his travels along Route 312, the Chinese Mother Road, the longest route in the world's most populous nation. Based on his successful NPR radio series, China Road draws on Gifford's 20 years of observing first-hand this rapidly transforming country, as he travels east to west, from Shanghai to China's border with Kazakhstan. As he takes listeners on this journey, he also takes them through China's past and present while he tries to make sense of this complex nation's potential future.

The year 2014 marks the 100th anniversary of Sir Ernest Shackleton's Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition. On December 5, 1914, Sir Ernest Shackleton, along with 27 men aboard the ship Endurance, departed South Georgia Island in the southern Atlantic Ocean for Vahsel Bayon the northeast coast of Antarctica with the intent of trekking across the continent. On August 20, 1916, Shackleton on the Yelcho picked up 22 men on the northeast coast of Elephant Island.

Я–Владислав Ли-Вавилонский, потомок двух родов из разных стран–Азиатского Содружества и Руси. И я вернулся на двадцать два года в прошлое, чтобы изменить будущее. Изначальный Мир–место, в котором каждый человек может начать эволюцию в одном из нескольких направлений. Разумеется, если выживет. Сражаясь с монстрами и убивая их, люди эволюционировали, очищая свою ДНК и развивая полученные способности. На мне большая ответственность, ведь только я знаю, что ждёт этот мир. Я могу стать его спасением, или его погибелью.

Я–Владислав Ли-Вавилонский, потомок двух родов из разных стран–Азиатского Содружества и Руси. И я вернулся на двадцать два года в прошлое, чтобы изменить будущее.

Temporal Reverie: Embracing Past and Future follows the life of Charles, a man dissatisfied with his era and longing for different times. Through a twist of fate, he is transported both to ancient Rome at the zenith of its power and to a dazzling future, year 4023, where humanity has merged with advanced technology. In these extraordinary journeys, Charles confronts the complexities and wonders of each era, ultimately leading him to a profound realization about the value of the present moment.

Say the word Israel today and it sparks images of walls and rockets and a bloody conflict without end. Yet for decades the symbol of the Jewish State was the noble pioneer draining the swamps and making the deserts bloom: the legendary kibbutznik. So what ever happened to the pioneers' dream of founding a socialist utopia in the land called Palestine? Chasing Utopia: The Future of the Kibbutz in a Divided Israel draws listeners into the quest for answers to the defining political conflict of our era.

Once Parker Jenkins finds out that he can travel through time, he has one goal, to stop his dad from being murdered by Hastings. Parker's decision will affect his future, and there will also be consequences for the rest of the world. Parker holds the fate of the world in his hands. Will Parker correctly balance the fate of his father against that of the world?

Andy Reese, an exoplanet astronomer living in the distant future contacts the Enclave, the last vestige of humanity. To stop the annihilation of the human race by the Seraph, post biological life forms, Reese is sent back along the timeline to prevent the evolution of the Seraph from computers. The link in time is an Iowa farm girl, Lucy Apel who has won a national contest to travel to the 1939 New York World's Fair and Professor Herman Geiger a gifted scientist, writer, and social philosopher.

The time traveler is on his way to a different world -- 800,000 years in the future. He finds humans called the Eloi living in simple luxury. They have become beautiful but meek, living on their safe, comfortable planet. The generations that have passed without challenge or adversity have dulled their minds. Underground machinery, built millennia ago, feeds and clothes these innocent creatures, and still functions perfectly. But who runs the machinery, and why are the Eloi afraid of the night?

The symbol of the Jewish State was the noble pioneer draining the swamps and making the deserts bloom: the legendary kibbutznik. So what ever happened to the pioneers’ dream of founding a socialist utopia in the land called Palestine? Chasing Utopia: The Future of the Kibbutz in a Divided Israel draws listeners into the quest for answers to the defining political conflict of our era. Acclaimed author David Leach revisits his raucous memories of life as a kibbutz volunteer and returns to meet a new generation of Jewish and Arab citizens struggling to forge a better future together.

Inside the Chinese Wine Industry takes you on a thrilling adventure through the past, present, and future of wine in China. The wine business is one of the world’s most compelling industries, and China is considered the rising star. A hidden secret, the Chinese wine production continues to grow at an amazing pace. It is poised to soon enter the top five producing nations, supplanting long-established countries such as Australia.

Major Chenesai Okonkwo is an auditor for the Sub-Saharan Union. Her mission: to find out if the Sixth Expeditionary Force's newly discovered time gate has been compromised. Is the union's revolutionary discovery already doomed, 11 years in the future? But there is another, more personal mission. The possible murder of her husband remains unsolved. But are the two things connected? Can she navigate the world of aliens, spies, politics and time paradoxes to find the truth, and save her people's future?

Most of the universe doesn’t know about the Darkers: a group of people that work outside of time to better the future. Acquisitions Editor Alice Goetz had no idea they existed until they enlisted her for a “simple” mission to improve the future: get Paul Osmund to sign his book to her publisher. After years of reliving the same few hours over and over, Alice realizes simplicity is never simple. She gets the contract, but the mission isn’t quite over, and staying on longer is dangerous.

One sunny day, little girl Emma decided to walk to her home as she did so many times before. People can be very talkative when they meet on the street, and oh boy, was our Emma a real little talker! But on a seemingly ordinary day, she saw something strange on her path.