Full Description
This volume brings together a selection of articles from "Analog" Magazine about intriguing new ideas for the exploration and colonization of space, from descriptions of new types of rockets and space ships, to proposals for the colonization of the planets and for interstellar travel. "Analog" Magazine is a respected periodical for popular science readers. Its contributors produce a range of new proposals for space travel which are scientifically plausible, including plans for the exploration of Mars, proposals for interstellar travel at the speed of light, and the concept of "terraforming" other planets to make them hospitable for human life.
Contents
Partial table of contents:; BREAKING THE BONDS OF THE EARTH; Comes the Revolution....(G; Stine); The Hypersonic Skyhook (R. Zubrin); STEPPING INTO THE SOLAR SYSTEM; Mars Direct: A Propasal for the Rapid Exploration and Colonization of the Red Planet (R. Zubrin & D. Baker); Inward Ho!; (S. Gillet); Alien Life Between Here and the Stars (R. Forward); CREATING NEW WORLDS; Terraforming Mars (R. Zubrin & C. McKay); A Planet Dweller's Dreams (M. Fogg); ADVANCED DRIVES AND INTERSTELLAR TRAVEL; To the Stars!; (G. Woodcock); The Magnetic Sail (R. Zubrin); The Tachyon Drive: Infinite Exhaust Velocity at Zero Energy Cost (J. Cramer); The Negative Matter Space Drive (R. Forward); References.
