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Item specifics
- Condition
- Publication Date
- 2022-10-11
- Pages
- 240
- ISBN
- 0691212376
- Subject Area
- Transportation, Science
- Publication Name
- Traveler's Guide to the Stars
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press
- Item Length
- 8.7 in
- Subject
- Physics / Astrophysics, Space Science, General, Astronomy
- Publication Year
- 2022
- Type
- Textbook
- Format
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 0.7 in
- Item Weight
- 14.5 Oz
- Item Width
- 5.7 in
- Number of Pages
- 240 Pages
About this product
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Princeton University Press
ISBN-10
0691212376
ISBN-13
9780691212371
eBay Product ID (ePID)
6057262547
Product Key Features
Number of Pages
240 Pages
Publication Name
Traveler's Guide to the Stars
Language
English
Publication Year
2022
Subject
Physics / Astrophysics, Space Science, General, Astronomy
Type
Textbook
Subject Area
Transportation, Science
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
Item Height
0.7 in
Item Weight
14.5 Oz
Item Length
8.7 in
Item Width
5.7 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
College Audience
LCCN
2021-058536
Dewey Edition
23
TitleLeading
A
Reviews
"The stars ... are notoriously far away, as the physicist and NASA technologist Les Johnson vividly emphasizes ...The nearest, Proxima Centauri, would take many millennia to reach. Some science-fiction writers, Mr. Johnson explains, have therefore imagined multigenerational "worldships".... But what will power their vessels? The author entertainingly describes sci-fi options such as warp drives and hyperspace, as well as potentially feasible ones such as antimatter drives, and definitely possible methods such as ion drives, solar sails and nuclear-pulse propulsion, the last involving dropping a continuous series of nukes out the back of your spacecraft and riding the blast waves.", "What will it take to explore a distant star within 100 years? To illuminate the momentousness (and ethics) of sending humans light-years from home, NASA scientist Les Johnson helps us digest mind-boggling numbers--the distance between stars, the energy required to travel that far--while laying out the opportunities and limits of existing technologies. Whether we get there by solar sails or ion thrusters or nuclear bombs, the advances we make in pursuit of interstellar travel will likely also change the way we live on Earth." ---Fionna M. D. Samuels, Scientific American, "You'd be hard pressed to find a better choice than a book covering what it would take to get man to another star system, written by one of the world's leading scientists actively working to turn science fiction into science fact." ---Sean CW Korsgaard, Analog, "A sober and careful analysis of the possibility of interstellar travel, written by someone with exactly the right background." ---Robert Connon Smith, The Observatory
Illustrated
Yes
Dewey Decimal
629.45
Synopsis
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 distant worlds may one day become a reality. A Traveler's 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 tomorrow's possibilities. A Traveler's 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 tomorrow's space travelers chart a course for 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 distant worlds may one day become a reality. A Traveler's 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 addresses the daunting challenges--both human and technological--that we will need to overcome in order to realize tomorrow's possibilities. A Traveler's 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 tomorrow's space travelers chart a course for 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 distant worlds may one day become a reality. A Traveler's 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 tomorrow's possibilities. A Traveler's 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 tomorrow's space travellers chart a course for the stars.
LC Classification Number
TL788.7.J644 2022
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