StarTram: the New Race to Space |
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Author:
| Powell, James Maise, George Pellegrino, Charles |
ISBN: | 978-1-4921-3536-4 |
Publication Date: | Aug 2013 |
Publisher: | CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
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Book Format: | Paperback |
List Price: | USD $34.95 |
Book Description:
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StarTram, a new way to launch people and payloads into space at much lower cost than now possible, will soon radically change the world. How will the world change? Will it be a bright future or a dark future for humanity? We don't know-nobody knows. The outcome will depend on our leaders and how we use this new technology. If the nations of the world cooperate, our future will be very bright: clean, low cost power beamed from space satellites to Earth, protection against global warming...
More DescriptionStarTram, a new way to launch people and payloads into space at much lower cost than now possible, will soon radically change the world. How will the world change? Will it be a bright future or a dark future for humanity? We don't know-nobody knows. The outcome will depend on our leaders and how we use this new technology. If the nations of the world cooperate, our future will be very bright: clean, low cost power beamed from space satellites to Earth, protection against global warming and threats from asteroids and comets, the mining of near-earth asteroids, real exploration of the Solar System and interstellar space, colonies on the Moon and Mars, space tourism, the discovery of extraterrestrial life forms, mining Helium-3 from the atmosphere of Uranus for return to Earth to fuel fusion reactors, and many other tremendous benefits.