Centauri dreams : imagining and planning interstellar exploration / Paul Gilster.

Author
Gilster, Paul, 1949- [Browse]
Format
Book
Language
English
Published/​Created
New York : Copernicus Books, c2004.
Description
xv, 302 p. ; 25 cm.

Details

Subject(s)
Bibliographic references
Includes bibliographical references (p. 259-288) and index.
Contents
  • Designing a mission
  • The target : Alpha Centauri and other nearby stars
  • The trouble with rockets
  • The antimatter alternative
  • Journey by starlight : the story of the solar sail
  • Of lightsails, ramjets, and fusion runways
  • Breaking through at NASA : science on the edge
  • Interstellar communications and navigation
  • A spacecraft that can think for itself
  • The future of the interstellar idea.
ISBN
038700436X (alk. paper)
LCCN
2004056211
OCLC
56330242
RCP
N - S
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