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Islands in the sky : bold new ideas for colonizing space / edited by Stanley Schmidt and Robert Zubrin.
- Title
- Islands in the sky : bold new ideas for colonizing space / edited by Stanley Schmidt and Robert Zubrin.
- Publication
- New York : John Wiley, c1996.
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- Description
- 266 p. : ill.; 24 cm.
- Series Statement
- Wiley popular science
- Uniform Title
- Wiley popular science.
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- Part One: Breaking the Bonds of the Earth -- 1. Comes the Revolution -- 2. The Hypersonic Skyhook -- Part Two: Stepping Into the Solar System -- 3. Mars Direct: A Proposal for the Rapid Exploration and Colonization of the Red Planet -- 4. Inward Ho! -- 5. Colonizing the Outer Solar System -- 6. Islands in the Sky: Human Exploration and Settlement of the Oort Cloud -- 7. Alien Life Between Here and There -- Part Three: Creating New Worlds -- 8. Terraforming Mars -- 9. A Planet Dweller's Dreams -- 10. Astrophysical Engineering and the Fate of the Earth -- Part Four: Advanced Drives and Interstellar Travel -- 11. To the Stars! -- 12. The Magnetic Sail -- 13. The Tachyon Drive: Infinite Exhaust Velocity at Zero Energy Cost -- 14. The Negative Matter Space Drive -- 15. The Economics of Interstellar Commerce.
- ISBN
- 0471135615 (pbk : alk. paper)
- LCCN
- ^^^95032914^
- OCLC
- 32820952
- SCSB-11917396
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library