Entering Space: Creating a Spacefaring Civilization"Robert Zubrin is a true engineering genius like the heroic engineers of the past." --Frederick Turner, American Enterprise Using nuts-and-bolts engineering and a unique grasp of human history, Robert Zubrin takes us to the not-very-distant future, when our global society will branch out into the universe. From the current-day prospect of lunar bases and Mars settlements to the outer reaches of other galaxies, Zubrin delivers the most important and forward-looking work on space and the true possibilities of human exploration since Carl Sagan's Cosmos. Sagan himself said of Zubrin's humans-to-Mars plan, "Bob Zubrin really, nearly alone, changed our thinking on this issue." With Entering Space, he takes us further, into the prospect of human expansion to the outer planets of our own solar system--and beyond. |
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Creating a Spacefaring Civilization Robert Zubrin. NUCLEAR POWER AND OUTER SOLAR SYSTEM EXPLORATION In discussing current - day and near - term robotic exploration of the outer solar system , one must inevitably address the issue of nuclear ...
... Nuclear fission , on the other hand , offers fuels with an enthalpy of 82 million MJ / kg , more than 6 mil- lion times as great as the best possible chemical propellants . Now the max- imum theoretical exhaust velocity of a rocket ...
... ( nuclear electric propulsion ) systems , 161 , 181 , 191 Neptune , 26 , 163 , 170 , 173 , 174 , 176 , 179 , 182 , 183 , 187 Nereus , 141 NERVA , 138 neutron stars , 210 , 212 " New Millenium " program , 141 Newton's law of reaction , 35 ...