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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.
Contents
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
