If legal advice or other expert assistance is required, the services of a competent professional person should be sought. This publication is designed to provide accurate and authoritative information in regard to the sub ject matter covered It is sold with the understanding that the publisher is not engaged in rendering legal, accounting, or other professional service. Singapore Publisher: Stephen Kippur Editor: David Sobel Managing Editor: Frank Grazioli Editing.Motloff WILEY SCIENCE EDITIONS John Wiley & Sons, Inc. Roberts Senses and Sensibilities, by Jillyn Smith Chemistry for Every Kid, by Janice Pratt VanCleave The Atomic Scientists: A Biographical History, by Henry Boorse, Lloyd Motz, and Jefferson Weaver The Starflight Handbook: A Pioneer's Guide to Interstellar Travel, by Eugene Mai love and Gregory Matloff TH€-STARFLIGHT HANDBOOK A Pioneer's Guide to Interstellar Travel Eugene F. McDonough The Body In Time, by Kenneth Jon Rose Clouds in a Glass of Beer, by Craig Bohren The Complete Book of Holograms, by Joseph Kasper and Steven Feller The Scientific Companion, by Cesare Emiliani Starsailing, by Louis Friedman Mirror Matter, by Robert Forward and Joel Davis Gravity’s Lens, by Nathan Cohen The Beauty of Light, by Ben Bova Cognlzers: Neural Networks and Machines that Think, by Colin Johnson and Chappell Brown Inventing Reality: Physics as Language, by Bruce Gregory The Complete Book of Superconductors, by David Wheeler and Mark Parish Planets Beyond: Discovering the Outer Solar System, by Mark Llttman The Oceans: A Book of Questions and Answers, by Don Groves The Starry Room, by Fred Schaaf The Weather Companion, by Gary Lockhart To the Arctic: An Introduction to the Far Northern World, by Steven Young Ozone Crisis: The 15-Year Evolution of a Sudden Global Emergency, by Sharon Roan The Endangered Kingdom, by Roger DiSilvestro Serendipity: Accidental Discoveries in Science, by Royston M.
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Interwoven through the text are historical perspectives as well as related social and cultural considerations about the necessity and feasibility of starfl Ight within the next quarter to half century Generous coverage is given to interstellar propulsion schemes of all kinds space time problems in starflight long-range, star to Earth communications effects of the Interstellar medium on people and machines scientific payloads Interstellar arks and colonies and techniques for spotting extrasolar planets. In an easy, nontechnical style, the authors offer in-depth discussions of everything from nuclear pulse propulsion engines to inter stellar navigation systems, while detailed technical and mathematical Information Is reserved for sidebars and special ap pendices. The Starflight Handbook is the first com pendium on planet Earth of the many and varied approaches to start light now on the drawing boards of some of our most talented scientists and engineers. Is really only the prelude to the much grander story of Interstellar travel. The technological revolution that began In 1967, when Sputnik I pierced the atmo sphere and made its way Into Earth orbit. But beyond the known planets, our closest extrasolar neighbor Is 270,000 times more distant than the Sun, and bridging the vast dis tances to the fertile worlds that may lay beyond our Solar System will require radi cally new technologies-technologies as different from current capabilities as was Apollo 11 from The Spirit of St. fortunately, doserthan ever to fulfilling that age-old ambition. Now, as we approach a time when the future of our species may depend upon more than what our beautiful but meager portion of galactic real estate offers, we are. Pioneer’s Guide to Interstellar Travel EUGENE HflLLOVE GREGORY FWTLOFF From the Tower of Babel to the Starship En terprise, some part of our collective mind has always been at work scheming of ways to storm the heavens and reach the stars.Table of contents : Cover Title Copyright Preface Contents Appendix References Index Citation preview
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