Space Farm Book at local editor

 I have a friend doing a bit of copy-editing and general 'lets see if it flows' over the complete draft of the space farm book 

Farms in Space: Balances for Life Support, Food, and Settlement

All the illustrations, diagrams, and tables are done, as are references (though may need to be formattted for publisher)

also tying up the index and glossary while the editor is poking at it.

So far it is a little over 414 pages, with much of that tied up in 332 figures, and 88 tables, and no equations (though I do walk through examples). 

Summary is something like this:

The future of space exploration, space stations, and space settlements hinges on our ability to grow tasty nutritious foods as part of recycling the air, water, and wastes from people in space. Technologies to make this future occur are mostly already in use in urban farms, vertical farms, chemical factories, and old school soil farms. This book provides a simple walkthrough of the chemistry, biology, machinery, plants, animals, and engineering required to make agriculture in space and closed loop recycling possible. Targeted at any interested person, there are over 330 diagrams and illustrations, dozens of tables, and simple processes that make anyone a future space farmer. The book also includes a story to show what it is like to work in a space farm, menus and meals from the farm, and future work to bridge the technological gaps. The technologies and methods in this book can also find use here now, to feed a hungry world!

the focus is on the ability to design using crops, machinery, and the like to fully recycle human outputs into food, water, and oxygen. Wraps ecologically closed loop life support into space ag.

also shopping for a real publisher to carry it forward.

Ad astra!

Bryce