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100 Year Starship 2012 conference proceedings : transformation to transition : the journey begins

Houston (TX, United states) : 100 Year Starship | 2013

"The 100 Year Starship 2012 Public Symposium: Transition to Transformation . . . The Journey Begins" brought together leaders, experts, thought and trendsetters, advocates and enthusiasts from the space community, universities, businesses and fi[...]

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100 Year Starship 2013 conference proceedings : pathway to the stars, footprints on Earth

Houston (TX, United states) : 100 Year Starship | 2014

"The 100 Year Starship 2013 Public Symposium: Transition to Transformation . . . The Journey Begins" brought together leaders, experts, thought and trendsetters, advocates and enthusiasts from the space community, universities, businesses and fi[...]

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Acta Futura

Dario Izzio, Editor | Noordwijk : Advanced Concept Team (ACT), European space agency

Acta Futura is an electronic open-access journal covering multidisciplinary research topics of potential interest in the long term for space science. The journal contains papers covering topics in which the space sector has a demonstrated intere[...]

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Advances in solar sailing

Malcolm Macdonald, Editor | Cham : Springer, Published in association with Praxis Publishing | 2014

This book presents the best contributions of the the Third International Symposium on Solar Sailing Glasgow, 11 - 13 June 2013. It is a rapid snap-shot of the state-of-the art of solar sail technology in 2013 across the globe, capturing flight p[...]

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Astra Planeta

Illkirch-Graffenstaden (France) : International Space University | 2015

If human beings are to expand their existence beyond the Solar System, a spacecraft must be built to navigate through interstellar space. This paper addresses interstellar travel using a slower-than-light, self-sustaining worldship to carry huma[...]

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Beyond Earth : a chronicle of deep space exploration, 1958-2016

Asif A. Siddiqi, Author ; United States. NASA History Program Office, Author | [S.l.] : National Aeronautics and Space Administration | NASA SP | 2018

This book is a chronicle of our attempts to send these robotic travelers beyond Earth orbit, to the Moon, to other planets and their moons, to the Sun, to comets, to minor planets, to dwarf planets, and ultimately beyond the solar system. This r[...]

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Beyond Earth : our path to a new home in the planets /

Charles P. Wohlforth, Author ; Amanda R. Hendrix, Author | [S.l.] : Pantheon Books | 2016

From a leading planetary scientist and an award-winning science writer, a propulsive account of the developments and initiatives that have transformed the dream of space colonization into something that may well be achievable. We are at the cu[...]

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Centauri dreams : imagining and planning interstellar exploration

Paul Gilster, Author | [S.l.] : Copernicus Books | 2004

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Centauri dreams : imagining and planning interstellar exploration

Paul Gilster | [S.l.] : Copernicus Books | 2004

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Children of time

Adrian Tchaikovsky, Author | [S.l.] : Pan Books | 2016

The last remnants of the human race left a dying Earth, desperate to find a new home. Following their ancestors' star maps, they discovered the greatest treasure of a past age--a world terraformed and prepared for human life. But all is not righ[...]

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Deep space craft : an overview of interplanetary flight

Dave Doody | New York, NY : Springer | Springer-Praxis books in astronautical engineering | 2009

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Deep space craft : an overview of interplanetary flight

Dave Doody | New York, NY : Springer | Springer-Praxis books in astronautical engineering | 2009

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Deep space flight and communications : exploiting the sun as a gravitational lens

Claudio Maccone | New York, NY : Springer | Springer-Praxis books in astronautical engineering | 2009

The book deals about the Sun as a gravitational lens and discusses how this can be exploited for interstellar exploration. It also deals with the key problem of communication between an interstellar spaceship and the Earth, especially where the[...]

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Deep space flight and communications : exploiting the sun as a gravitational lens

Claudio Maccone | New York, NY : Springer | Springer-Praxis books in astronautical engineering | 2009

The book deals about the Sun as a gravitational lens and discusses how this can be exploited for interstellar exploration. It also deals with the key problem of communication between an interstellar spaceship and the Earth, especially where the[...]

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Deep-space probes

G.L. Matloff | New York, NY : Springer | Springer-Praxis books in astronomy and space sciences | 2000

The space age is nearly 50 years old but exploration of the outer planets and beyond has only just begun... "Deep-space probes" explains in depth why we should explore beyond the edge of the solar system, and how we can build highly sophisticate[...]

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Deep-space probes : to the outer solar system and beyond /

Gregory L. Matloff, Author | Berlin : Springer | Springer-Praxis books in astronautical engineering | 2005

The Space Age is nearly 50 years old but exploration of the outer planets and beyond has only just begun. Deep-Space Probes Second Edition draws on the latest research to explain why we should explore beyond the edge of the Solar System and how [...]

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Deep space propulsion : a roadmap to interstellar flight

K F. Long, Author | New York, NY : Springer | 2012

This book reviews the many reasons for exploring our stellar neighbors using robotic probes, and closely examines new technologies for constructing space probes that can traverse the enormous distances between the stars

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Deep space propulsion : a roadmap to interstellar flight /

K F. Long, Author | New York, NY : Springer | 2012

This book reviews the many reasons for exploring our stellar neighbors using robotic probes, and closely examines new technologies for constructing space probes that can traverse the enormous distances between the stars

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A design for a reusable water-based spacecraft known as the spacecoach

Brian McConnell, Author ; Alexander Tolley, Author | New York, NY : Springer | SpringerBriefs in space development | 2016

Based on components already in existence, this manual details a reference design for an interplanetary spacecraft that is simple, durable, fully reusable and comprised mostly of water. Using such an accessible material leads to a spacecraft arch[...]

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Dissent, revolution and liberty beyond earth

Charles S. Cockell, Editor | New York, NY : Springer | Space and Society | 2016

This volume provides an in-depth discussion on the central question - how can people express and survive dissent and disagreement in confined habitats in space? The discussion is an important one because it could be that the systems of inter-dep[...]

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Dream missions : space colonies, nuclear spacecraft and other possibilities /

Michel Van Pelt, Author | Cham : Springer, Published in association with Praxis Publishing | 2017

This book takes the reader on a journey through the history of extremely ambitious, large and complex space missions that never happened. What were the dreams and expectations of the visionaries behind these plans, and why were they not successf[...]

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Emigrating beyond Earth : human adaptation and space colonization /

Cameron McPherson Smith, Author ; Evan Tyler SuliLeman Davies, Author | Cham : Springer, Published in association with Praxis Publishing | Springer-Praxis books in popular science | 2012

The book puts space colonization into the context of human evolution. Rather than focusing on the technologies and strategies needed to colonize space, the authors examine the human and societal reasons for space colonization. They make space co[...]

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Emigrating beyond Earth : human adaptation and space colonization /

Cameron McPherson Smith, Author ; Evan Tyler SuliLeman Davies, Author | Cham : Springer, Published in association with Praxis Publishing | Springer-Praxis books in popular science | 2012

The book puts space colonization into the context of human evolution. Rather than focusing on the technologies and strategies needed to colonize space, the authors examine the human and societal reasons for space colonization. They make space co[...]

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The exoplanet handbook

M. A. C. Perryman, Author | Cambridge : Cambridge University Press | 2011

The book covers the many different techniques available for exoplanet detection and characterisation, the broad range of the relevant underlying physics, the overlap with parallel topics in solar system and Earth sciences, and the many concepts [...]

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Exoplanets : detection, formation, properties, habitability /

John W. Mason, Author | New York, NY : Springer | Springer-Praxis books in astronomy and planetary sciences | 2008

The topics covered in Exoplanets include both theoretical work on the formation and orbital evolution of these systems, and current observational studies using a wide variety of detection and analytical techniques

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Fast solar sailing : astrodynamics of special sailcraft trajectories

Giovanni Vulpetti, Author | New York, NY : Springer | Space technology library | 2012

This book describes how to plan, compute and optimize the trajectories of sailcraft with speeds considerably higher than the Earth's orbital speed; such sailcraft would be able to explore the outer heliosphere, the near interstellar medium and t[...]

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Fast transit: Mars and beyond

Illkirch-Graffenstaden (France) : International Space University | 2019

The goal of this project was to determine a method for crewed fast transit using continuous acceleration to reduce the mission length from eighteen months to weeks. This will minimize exposure to radiation and microgravity for human travelers. I[...]

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Frontiers of propulsion science

Marc G. Millis, Editor ; Eric W. Davis, Editor | Reston, VA : American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics | Progress in astronautics and aeronautics | 2009

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The future of humanity : our destiny in the universe

Michio Kaku, Author | New York : Anchor Books, a division of Penguin Random House LLC | 2019

Formerly the domain of fiction, moving human civilization to the stars is increasingly becoming a scientific possibility--and a necessity. Whether in the near future due to climate change and the depletion of finite resources, or in the distant [...]

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Future spacecraft propulsion systems : enabling technologies for space exploration

Paul A. Czysz, Author ; Claudio Bruno, Author ; Bernd Chudoba, Author | New York, NY : Springer | Springer-Praxis books in astronautical engineering | 2017

The updated and expanded third edition of this book focuses on the multi-disciplinary coupling between flight-vehicle hardware alternatives and enabling propulsion systems. It discusses how to match near-term and far-term aerospace vehicles to m[...]

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