Out There: The Science Behind Sci-Fi Film and TV

＂Explore the science behind some of your favorite popular science fiction tropes--from escaping a black hole to riding a space elevator to the stars--in this illustrated guide from NASA advisor and host of the popular Tested podcast Offworld＂--

Ariel Waldman is the chair of the council for NASA’s Innovative Advanced Concepts program. As principal investigator, she led a five-week expedition to Antarctica to film microscopic life under the ice, which became the subject of her TED Talk. Ariel produces and hosts YouTube shows, including a show about the science of sci-fi on Adam Savage’s Tested, as well as her own channel of science adventures. She is the co-author of a congressionally-requested National Academy of Sciences report on the future of human spaceflight and the author of the book What’s It Like in Space?: Stories from Astronauts Who’ve Been There. Ariel is the global director of Science Hack Day and National Geographic Explorer and received an honor from the Obama White House as a Champion of Change in citizen science.