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Beyond the boundary

The Initiative for Interstellar Studies (i4iS) are proud to bring you our new book, which was edited by Executive Director Kelvin F.Long. This volume, took a year in the making and contains chapter contributions from some of the leading lights in the field of interstellar studies. It also contains chapters from new comers, giving them an opportunity to have their say. We are really excited about this book and we hope that you are too. Below is the chapter structure for this exciting publication.

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BEYOND THE BOUNDARY: EXPLORING THE SCIENCE AND CULTURE OF INTERSTELLAR SPACEFLIGHT

  • Dedication
  • Acknowledgements
  • Foreword, Jon Lomberg
  • Introduction, Kelvin F.Long

SECTION 1: THE CHALLENGE OF THE INTERSTELLAR FLIGHT

  • Introduction, Kelvin F.Long
  • Scientific and Societal Benefits of Interstellar Exploration, Ian Crawford
  • The Conceptual Basis for Interstellar Flight, Giovanni Vulpetti
  • When Will Voyager 1 Leave the Solar System, Stephen Ashworth

SECTION II: BUILDING A BRIDGE TO THE STARS

  • Introduction, Kelvin F.Long
  • Building A Starship From the Lessons of History, Jonathan Brooks
  • Starship Cities, Rachel Armstrong
  • Building Heavy Lift Rockets: How United Launch Alliance Do it, Bill Cress
  • Future Launch Vehicles, Richard Osborne
  • The Road Before the Stars: Interstellar Precursor Missions, Kelvin F.Long

SECTION III: INTERSTELLAR TECHNOLOGIES & SOLUTIONS

  • Introduction, Kelvin F.Long
  • Advanced Electric Propulsion for Interstellar Precursor Missions, Angelo Genovese
  • Power for the Stars: Boot-Strapping Our Way to Alpha Centauri, Adam Crowl
  • Warp Drives and Faster-Than-Light Travel, Tiffany Frierson
  • Interstellar Travel and Traversable Wormholes, Remo Garattini
  • Interstellar Communication: RF and Optical Establishments, Divya Shankar
  • Starship Communication Via Quantum Entanglement, David E Fields
  • An Introduction to Artificial Intelligence As Applied to Space Exploration, Jeremy Clark

SECTION IV: INTERSTELLAR DESTINATIONS, COLONISATION AND THE SEARCH FOR LIFE

  • Introduction, Kelvin F.Long
  • Destinations: The Planets Next Door, Keith Cooper
  • What Do We Do Once We Get There?, Kenneth Roy, David E Fields, Robert G Kennedy
  • The Greatest Challenge: Manned Interstellar Travel, Andreas Hein
  • The Drake Equation, Fermi’s Paradox and Active SETI, Martin Ciupa

SECTION V: COMMUNICATION OF THE VISION

  • Introduction, Kelvin F.Long
  • Travelling to the Stars on a Paintbrush, David A Hardy
  • Musica Universalis: The Interstellar Relationship Between Space, Music and Popular Culture, Alex Storer
  • About the Initiative for Interstellar Studies

Meet the Authors
Glossary
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