The Relativistic Rocketeer: Volume 6

This book is about building craft for space travel—a space travel that is not in the distant future but in the immediate future. There is no question that we have the technology to build and power large crafts capable of traversing the galaxy. For now, this book will focus on achieving the goal of intragalactic travel. We will describe various methods of power generation and propulsion, delineate the materials and technology for construction, discuss the building of the spacecraft from the ...