Deep Space Propulsion: a Roadmap to Interstellar Flight

摘要

This is a readable, insightful and personal history of interstellar travel thinking with a focus on propulsion ('the author favours the nuclear pulse', page ⅹ), The history takes us from Aviation to possible solutions that Long hopes will progress us to 'thinking of your own ideas for how machines can be propelled across the vastness of space' (page ⅸ).To help with this aim, each chapter has an 'Introduction' providing a short overview of the chapter while the 'practice exercises' at the end are to stimulate discussion.