The problems facing interstellar flight powered by any known means are evaluated. It is concluded that nuclear powered flight at either relativistic or subrelativistic velocities is impractical, and that interstellar flight awaits the discovery of some as yet unknown force.
There Will Be No Photon Rocket
1965
2 pages
Report
No indication
English
Online Contents | 1995
|Intragalactic rocket using photon propulsion
AIAA | 1970
|Is there a future in liquid rocket propulsion?
AIAA | 1991
|Huge crawler-transporter will move moon rocket
Engineering Index Backfile | 1965