Living Off the Land in Space
‘Living Off The Land In Space' is co-authored by interstellar travel expert and professor Dr. Greg Matloff and NASA Marshall Space Flight Center (MSFC) program manager Les Johnson, with chapter frontispiece art by C Bangs. This popular, visionary approach to future space possibilities results from discussions with Les Johnson. Greg’s contribution as a consultant to MSFC in research, technical, and popular writing efforts adds another dimension to this book.
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Introduction
Chapter 1 The Old Frontier Paleolithic Migrations, Neolithic and Bronze-Age Migrants, Historical Migrations.
Chapter 2 The New Frontier, The Moon as a Habitat, Living Among the NEOs, The Lure of Mars, Settling the Outer Solar System, Interstellar Environments
Chapter 3 The Rocket and its Limits, Rocket Fundamentals, Rocket Varieties, Electric Rockets, Nuclear Thermal and Solar Thermal Rockets, Rocket Futures
Chapter 4 The First “Green” Space Technologies, Aeroassisted Atmospheric Reentry, Planetary Gravity Assists
Chapter 5 Probes to the Planets: Where We’ve Been on Our Journey, Robots to the Moon, The Lure of our Sister Planet, Blistering Mercury, Tantalizing Mars, Distant Giants, Small Worlds
Chapter 6 Probes to the Stars: Concept Studies, Interstellar H-Bombs, A Sanitized Orion, Some Wonderful Improbabilities, TAU: NASA’s First Interstellar Probe Study, Star Sailing
Chapter 7 Breaking Out into Space: Visionary Futures, Cylinder Cities, Power for the Earth, Beyond the Space Cylinders, Life in the Space Cities
Chapter 8 Thinking Interstellar, Earthly and Understandable Units of Measure, Distance in the Solar System and Beyond, NASA’s Interstellar Initiative and the Interstellar Probe Mission
Chapter 9 Technological readiness is a NASA procedure that tracks the developmental process of an in-space propulsion concept from theory to flight readiness.
Chapter 9 B Technological readiness levels are the steps taken by an in-space propulsion concept as it advances towards operational application.
Chapter 10 Space Brakes (“Living Off the Land” by Using a Planetary Atmosphere), Aeroentry, Aerobraking, Aerocapture, Aerocapture Application to Solar System Resource Surveys, Some Aerocapture Issues, Aerogravity Assist,
Chapter 11 The Ion Trail, Ion Drive History, Electric-Propulsion Fundamentals, Initial Interplanetary Application of Ion Propulsion, Possible Ion Propulsion Technology Application to Solar System Development
Chapter 12 The Orbital Steam Locomotive, Solar-Thermal Rocket Fundamentals, Near-Term Application of Solar-Thermal Rockets, Possible Application of Solar-Thermal Technology to Solar System Development
Chapter 13 Sky Clippers, Photon Sailing History, Solar Sailing Fundamentals, Current Sail Technology, Missions for near-Term Solar Photon Sails, Near-Future Solar-Sail Development Possibilities, Solar-Photon Sails and Space Development
Chapter 14 Art or Science? The Pioneer 10/11 Message Plaque, The Voyager Plaques, A Future Message Plaque Possibility: Holography
Chapter 15 Space Beanstalks, Electrodynamic Tethers: Tapping a Planet’s Magnetic Field for Power and Propulsion, Tethers for Propulsion and Power at Jupiter, Momentum Exchange Electrodynamic Reboost (MXER) Tethers
Chapter 16 Chemical Propulsion For Space Exploration-Good For Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow, The Moon: A Refueling Depot for Deep Space Exploration, Mars: The Red Planet May Provide Fuel for Round Trip, Travel to Earth, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune: Our Next Stops, Asteroids and Comets: Abundant and Dispersed Gas Stations
Chapter 17 Human Exploration, Aerocapture, Solar Electric Propulsion, Solar Thermal Propulsion, Solar Sails, Space Tethers
Chapter 18 Defending the Earth, Nuclear Impact-Threat Mitigation, Using Space Resources to Mitigate the Threat
Chapter 19 Space Miners, Possible Near-Earth Resource Locations, Preliminary Exploration, Mining the Atens, Tapping More Distant Space Mines
Chapter 20 Some Exotic Possibilities, Plasma Sails, Magnetic Propulsion, Antimatter Propulsion, Breakthrough Propulsion Physics, Replacing the Rocket: Antigravity, Replacing the Rocket: Thrust Machines, Tapping ZPE and Getting Something for Nothing, Hyperspace Shortcuts, Instant Earths, The Red-Eye Special
Chapter 21 Sights on Centaurus, The First Starships, The Slow Boat to the Stars, Fast Ships, Spreading Through the Galaxy