Interstellar Travel

Purpose and Motivations
Erscheinungsjahr 2023
ISBN: 978-0-323-91360-7
Verlag: Elsevier - Health Sciences Division

Buch, Englisch, 290 Seiten, Format (B × H): 234 mm x 189 mm, Gewicht: 630 g

Interstellar Travel: Purpose and Motivations is a comprehensive, technical look at the necessary considerations for interstellar travel addressed by leading experts in the field, from scientists studying possible destinations (exoplanets) and the vast distances between, to those concerned with building institutions and capabilities in society that could sustain such endeavors. In addition to the technical, medical, and anthropological aspects of deep space travel, the ethics and morality of spreading Earth-based life to other worlds is also examined.

In the first book of a three-book compilation, Interstellar Travel: Purpose and Motivations offers in-depth, up-to-date and realistic technical and scientific considerations in the pursuit of interstellar travel and is an integral reference for scientists, engineers, researchers and academics working on, or interested in, space development and space technologies. With a renewed interest in space exploration and development evidenced by the rise of the commercial space sector and various governments now planning to send humans back to the moon and to Mars, so also is interest in taking the next steps beyond the Solar System and to the ultimate destination - planets circling other stars.

Zielgruppe

<p>Researchers, professionals and academics working on, or interested in, space development and space travel, especially principal investigators of extra solar space missions, astrobiologists, and engineers for future space missions.</p>

Autoren/Hrsg.

Johnson, Les (Physicist and NASA Technologist

Johnson, Les

Fachgebiete

• Naturwissenschaften Biowissenschaften Biowissenschaften Exobiologie, Astrobiologie
• Technische Wissenschaften Sonstige Technologien | Angewandte Technik Weltraumforschung
• Technische Wissenschaften Sonstige Technologien | Angewandte Technik Astronautik
• Naturwissenschaften Astronomie Exobiologie, Astrobiologie, Xenobiologie
• Naturwissenschaften Astronomie Raumfahrt

Inhaltsverzeichnis

CHAPTER 1 Propulsion options CHAPTER 2 Power options CHAPTER 3 Crew health-Psychological, biological, and medical issues and the need for a systems approach CHAPTER 4 Interstellar life support CHAPTER 5 Timing relationships and resulting communications challenges in relativistic travel CHAPTER 6 Prospects for human hibernation CHAPTER 7 Ship culture and governance CHAPTER 8 Spare parts and additive manufacturing CHAPTER 9 Outline: Optimal crew size at both departure and arrival CHAPTER 10 Artificial intelligence: Useful crewman, terrible master, benign leader, or the actual payload, and do we et to choose? CHAPTER 11 Maintaining communication with Earth during an interstellar flyby mission Appendix A Nomenclature Appendix B Photon efficiency bounds and bandwidth

Über Autor(innen)

Johnson, Les
Les Johnson is a physicist and NASA technologist at the George C. Marshall Space Flight Center where he is the Principal Investigator for flight demonstration of advanced space technology systems including solar sails, power systems, and most recently, space based solar power. He was the co-investigator on the Japanese-led T-Rex space tether experiment that flew in August 2010, the Principal Investigator for the NASA ProSEDS space experiment, received NASA's Exceptional Achievement Medal three times, and holds 3 space technology patents. His book, Solar Sails, a Novel Approach to Interplanetary Travel was favorably reviewed in the journal Nature (10 April 2008). Graphene: The Superstrong, Superthin, and Superversatile Material That Will Revolutionize the World also appeared in Nature (25 January 2018) and was excerpted in American Scientist (May-June 2018). Les is a member of the International Academy of Astronautics, the British Interplanetary Society, the National Space Society, the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America, and MENSA - and is the Program Chair of the Interstellar Research Group.