Interstellar Travel: After Arrival is a comprehensive, technical look at the necessary considerations for settlement on an extra solar planet following interstellar travel, addressed by leading experts in the fields of space development. The book features the current and future plans for lunar, Mars, and asteroid settlement, and how what we learn from such future endeavors might apply to settlement at destinations around other stars. In addition, scientists who have been considering the construction of large space structures and terraforming discuss realistic options to be considered.
Other chapters cover necessary considerations such as whether terraforming is possible and how it might be accomplished, the ethical issues and scientific constraints to interacting with an alien biosphere, and what we might learn from settling within our own Solar System that would apply to settling elsewhere. The third book of a three-book compilation, this new release presents up-to-date and realistic technical and scientific considerations of the challenges that settling on an exoplanet would bring, including review of the current technological capabilities and how they might be put towards life on an extra solar planet.
1. Introduction - p. xi 2. Chapter 1 Orbital space settlements - p. 1 3. Chapter 2 Analogs as guides: Lunar settlements - p. 29 4. Chapter 3 Settling Mars-like planets in alien star systems - p. 67 5. Chapter 4 The challenge of interstellar travel - p. 91 6. Chapter 5 A guide to classical terraforming - p. 125 7. Chapter 6 Beyond space settlements: Shell worlds - p. 145 8. Chapter 7 Interacting with alien life - p. 165 9. Chapter 8 Interstellar microwave and optical links: Communications between stars - p. 181 10. Chapter 9 Questions of governance for an interstellar colony - p. 243 11. Chapter 10 Ensuring settlement survival and sustainability - p. 261 12. Chapter 11 Promises and pitfalls in colonial development - p. 289 13. Chapter 12 Conclusions and thoughts - p. 319 14. Index - p. 329
Interstellar Travel: After Arrival is a comprehensive, technical look at the necessary considerations for settlement on an extra solar planet following interstellar travel, addressed by leading experts in the fields of space development. The book features the current and future plans for lunar, Mars, and asteroid settlement, and how what we learn from such future endeavors might apply to settlement at destinations around other stars. In addition, scientists who have been considering the construction of large space structures and terraforming discuss realistic options to be considered.
Other chapters cover necessary considerations such as whether terraforming is possible and how it might be accomplished, the ethical issues and scientific constraints to interacting with an alien biosphere, and what we might learn from settling within our own Solar System that would apply to settling elsewhere. The third book of a three-book compilation, this new release presents up-to-date and realistic technical and scientific considerations of the challenges that settling on an exoplanet would bring, including review of the current technological capabilities and how they might be put towards life on an extra solar planet.
1. Introduction - p. xi 2. Chapter 1 Orbital space settlements - p. 1 3. Chapter 2 Analogs as guides: Lunar settlements - p. 29 4. Chapter 3 Settling Mars-like planets in alien star systems - p. 67 5. Chapter 4 The challenge of interstellar travel - p. 91 6. Chapter 5 A guide to classical terraforming - p. 125 7. Chapter 6 Beyond space settlements: Shell worlds - p. 145 8. Chapter 7 Interacting with alien life - p. 165 9. Chapter 8 Interstellar microwave and optical links: Communications between stars - p. 181 10. Chapter 9 Questions of governance for an interstellar colony - p. 243 11. Chapter 10 Ensuring settlement survival and sustainability - p. 261 12. Chapter 11 Promises and pitfalls in colonial development - p. 289 13. Chapter 12 Conclusions and thoughts - p. 319 14. Index - p. 329
