A Scenario for Interstellar Exploration and Its Financing
This book develops a credible scenario for interstellar exploration and colonization. In so doing, it examines: • the present situation and prospects for interstellar exploration technologies; • where to go: the search for habitable planets; • the motivat
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Giovanni F. Bignami Andrea Sommariva
A Scenario for Interstellar Exploration and Its Financing
SpringerBriefs in Space Development
Series editor Joseph N. Pelton
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A Scenario for Interstellar Exploration and Its Financing
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Giovanni F. Bignami IASF-INAF Milan Italy
ISSN 2191-8171 ISBN 978-88-470-5336-6 DOI 10.1007/978-88-470-5337-3
Andrea Sommariva META (Beijing) Consulting Company Ltd Beijing People’s Republic of China
ISSN 2191-818X (electronic) ISBN 978-88-470-5337-3 (eBook)
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Preface
This book is a contribution of an astrophysicist and an economist to the debate on space exploration. Space exploration is an important subject and one of the most contested and in need of careful investigation. We strongly believe that the analysis should go beyond the scientific and technical aspects, and should be enlarged to economics, sociology, political science, history, and cultural studies. They are equally important in understanding what space exploration is and how space exploration can contribut
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