There is currently tremendous interest in the search for extrasolar life and extraterrestrial intelligence, and this is expressed by financial backing from NASA for extrasolar exploration by space probes.
This book will be an authoritative and comprehensive survey of the present-day state of the art in the field of extrasolar and interstellar space exploration, focusing on the most promising techniques.
Readership:
Amateur astronomers, astronomy students, professional astronomers
Table of Contents
- Foreword.
- Preface.
- Introduction: The New Realms of Space.
- Motivations for Deep-Space Travel.
- The Realms of Space.
- Tomorrow's Targets.
- Space Propulsion Today.
- The Incredible Shrinking Space Probe.
- The Nuclear Option.
- Twenty-first Century Starflight.
- On the Technological Horizon.
- Exotic Possibilities.
- Of Stars, Planets and Life.
- Life Between the Stars.
- Conscious Spacecraft.
- Meeting ET.
- References, Nomenclature, Glossary, Acknowledgements.
Springer Praxis, 2005, 184 S.
117,65 Euro
Hardcover, w. 42 figs.
ISBN: 978-3-540-24772-2
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