A traveler's guide to the stars

A brief guide to the real science of interstellar travel. With known exoplanets now numbering in the thousands and initiatives like 100 Year Starship and Breakthrough Starshot advancing the idea of interstellar travel, the age-old dream of venturing forth into the cosmos and perhaps even colonizing...

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Autor Principal: Johnson, Les, 19..-...., auteur d'ouvrages de vulgarisation
Formato: Livre numérique
Idioma:Anglais
Publicado: Princeton (N.J.) ; Oxford : Princeton University Press 2022.
Paris : Cyberlibris
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Acceso en liña:Accès Université Orléans et IFPM 
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Edition sous un autre format:• A traveler's guide to the stars, Les Johnson, Princeton (N.J.), Princeton University Press, 2022, 1 volume (219 pages), 978-0-691-21237-1
Table des matières:
  • Part 1. The universe awaits
  • Part 2. Interstellar precursos
  • Part 3. Putting interstellar travel into context
  • Part 4. Send the robots, people, or both ?
  • Part 5. Getting there with rockets
  • Part 6. Getting there with light
  • Part 7. Designing interstellar starships
  • Part 8. Scientific speculation and science fiction