Les Johnson
A Traveler's Guide to the Stars
A Traveler's Guide to the Stars
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The age-old dream of interstellar travel may become a reality with known exoplanets numbering in the thousands and initiatives like 100 Year Starship and Breakthrough Starshot advancing the idea. A Travelers Guide to the Stars by Les Johnson takes you on a thrilling tour of the physics and technologies that may enable us to reach the stars, discussing the latest exoplanet discoveries, promising interstellar missions, and exciting new developments in space propulsion, power, robotics, communications, and more. However, interstellar travel will not be easy, and it is not for the faint of heart. Johnson describes the harsh and forbidding expanse of space that awaits us and the daunting challenges that we will need to overcome to realize tomorrows possibilities.
Format: Hardback
Length: 240 pages
Publication date: 03 January 2023
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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 distant worlds may one day become a reality.
A Travelers Guide to the Stars reveals how. Les Johnson takes you on a thrilling tour of the physics and technologies that may enable us to reach the stars. He discusses the latest exoplanet discoveries, promising interstellar missions on the not-so-distant horizon, and exciting new developments in space propulsion, power, robotics, communications, and more. But interstellar travel will not be easy, and it is not for the faint of heart. Johnson describes the harsh and forbidding expanse of space that awaits us, and he addresses the daunting challenges—both human and technological—that we will need to overcome in order to realize tomorrows possibilities.
A Travelers Guide to the Stars is your passport to the next great frontier of human discovery, providing a rare inside look at the remarkable breakthroughs in science and technology that will help tomorrows space travelers chart a course for the stars.
Dimension: 216 x 140 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9780691212371
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