19 April 2024
A Traveler’s Guide to the Stars
...). The book’s eight chapters introduce interstellar travel, put it into historical context and discuss the design of starships. This design includes, of course, the method of propulsion, so he covers all the usual suspects - rockets, light and...
June 2015
The real Interstellar: space travel theories from Tsiolkovsky to wormholes
... as Icarus (via the British Interplanetary Society and the Tau Zero Foundation) and the 100 Year Starship project (via DARPA and NASA). In the century that has passed since Tsiolkovsky’s time, thousands of works...
March 2016
Multi-planet Civilizations in Popular Culture
... plot), the process of safely relocating an entire planet’s population is stated to be as long as three years. And although the starship Voyager has the necessary technology to ‘fix’ the planet’s nuclear apocalypse, the intense yearning of some among...
September 2016
Life in the extremes: confessions of an astrobiologist
... in hot, very saline or extremely acidic conditions? It was because extremophiles had long surpassed what the crew of Starship Enterprise regularly boasts about in Star Trek - that they go where no one has gone before. A famous astrobiologist...
August 2018
Flying to the stars
... for answers to these questions. References 1 A. Bond, “Project Daedalus – The Final Report on the BIS Starship Study,” 1978. 2 A. M. Hein, K. F. Long, D. Fries, N. Perakis, A. Genovese, S. Zeidler, M. Langer, R. Osborne, R. Swinney, J. Davies...
April 2019
Space launch industry analysis
..., is partially reusable. Meanwhile, as NASA races to complete its SLS Block 1, SpaceX is designing an even larger rocket – the Starship/BFR Booster combination. The rocket is designed to provide flights to the Moon and Mars, but will also...
