Five Billion Years of Solitude: Lee Billings on the Science of Reaching the Stars
What’s stopping humans from living in space? The problem isn’t just a loss of political will to finance human space flight. Rocket science turns out to be rocket science – not easy, and constrained by some very real limitations dictated by material science, the physics of acceleration, and the unwieldy economics of interstellar propulsion. Until…
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Steve Silberman