An audacious (and some would say quixotic) plan to send an unmanned craft to Centauri, the star system nearest to our Sun, is already underway at a number of NASA sites around the US. Gilster investigates the science, and just as importantly the spirit, of the researchers who ar…
"[T]ells the story of what the key researchers in interstellar exploration are doing, and how they move their projects forward, when most of the relevant science has not been experimentally verified, and most of the engineering is still decades, if not centuries, into the future…
"Centauri Dreams tells the story of what the key researchers in interstellar exploration are doing, and how they move their projects forward, when most of the relevant science has not been experimentally verified, and most of the engineering is still decades, if not centuries, i…