Centauri Dreams: Imagining and Planning Interstellar Exploration

The plan to send an unmanned craft on a 40-year journey to Alpha Centauri is, some think, the essence of bold science reaching out to the unknown. Gilster shows why scientists who will barely live to see the launch, and not long enough to see the outcome, are committed to this startling goal.

Binding Type: Hardcover
Publisher: Copernicus Books
Published: 10/08/2004
ISBN: 9780387004365
Pages: 302
Weight: 1.36lbs
Size: 9.52h x 6.54w x 1.10d

Review Citations: Publishers Weekly 01/10/2005 pg. 51
Choice 03/01/2005 pg. 1248