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Dream Missions: Space Colonies, Nuclear Spacecraft and Other Possibilities

Name: Dream Missions: Space Colonies, Nuclear Spacecraft and Other Possibilities
ISBN: 9783319539416

Michel Van Pelt

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Ever since the dawn of the space age, people have imagined what could be achieved as the boundaries of engineering,technology and human endeavor have been pushed further and further. They had dreams of gigantic launch systems, nuclear-propelled interplanetary spacecraft, and the ultimate - space colonized byhumans. Why did they not (yet) succeed in bringing their projects to reality?

Dream Missions takes the reader on a journey through the history of extremely large, ambitious, and complex space missionsthat never came to fruition. Each project described in this book says something about the visions and expectations of their time, and how their demise was often linked to important changes in the cultural, political and social state of the world.

Categories:

Engineering

Year:

2017

Publisher:

Springer

Language:

english

Pages:

268

ISBN 10:

3319539418