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Centauri dreams : imagining and planning interstellar exploration
- Title
- Centauri dreams : imagining and planning interstellar exploration / Paul Gilster.
- Author
- Gilster, Paul, 1949-
- Publication
- New York : Copernicus Books, c2004.
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Details
- Description
- xv, 302 p.; 25 cm.
- Subjects
- Bibliography (note)
- 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.
- Call Number
- JSE 06-1102
- ISBN
- 038700436X (alk. paper)
- LCCN
- 2004056211
- OCLC
- 56330242
- Author
- Gilster, Paul, 1949-
- Title
- Centauri dreams : imagining and planning interstellar exploration / Paul Gilster.
- Imprint
- New York : Copernicus Books, c2004.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 259-288) and index.
- Research Call Number
- JSE 06-1102