Starship Century: Toward the Grandest Horizon, is 333 pages in print, includes 68 figures and graphics, along with scientific articles and science fiction exploring the exploration of space beyond the solar system.
Index of Starship Century
Alcubierre, 42, 287-289, 298
Alpha Centauri, 1, 2, 35, 175, 180-3, 190, 200, 225-9, 231, 234
Anderson, Poul, 3, 37, 178, 186, 328
Andrews, Dana, 184, 191
antimatter, 5, 28-9, 173, 180, 184-6
Armstrong, Neil, 18, 307
artificial intelligence, 185, 234
Asimov, Isaac, 3
atomic bomb, 170,173
Baxter, Stephen, 3, 327
beamed power, 194
black hole, 6, 24, 29, 37, 286-290
Bond, Allan, 177-180
Brin, David, 327
British Interplanetary Society, 5, 172, 180, 184, 323
brown dwarf, 159
Bussard, Robert, 28, 177-8, 186-7
Bussard ramjet, vi, 177-9, 184, 186
Cramer, John, 6, 41, 50
Crawford, Ian, 262
Casimir effect, 286-92
Casseni-Huygens probe, 96,233
Centauri Dreams, 186, 191, 323
chemical rocket, 119-22, 280
Clarke, Arthur C., 3
cyborg, 18
Daedalus, see Project Daedalus
Davies, Paul, 203
Davis, Eric, 284-5, 288-89, 291-2
Dixon, Don, vi, 163, 221
Dyson, Freeman, 11, 23, 37, 175, 180, 187, 301-2, 304
economics of starflight, 83-101, 119
electric propulsion, 95,100, 121
Enzmann starship, 176
Europa, 22, 229
exhaust velocity, 95-99, 120-26, 175
exoplanet, 203, 228-9, 232, 237
Fermi paradox, 4, 297, 301
Forward, Robert, 14, 180, 182-3, 185, 197, 200
Fission, nuclear 5, 180, 188, 195, 258
Fusion, thermonuclear
fuel, 120, 177-9, 181
reactor, 28, 37, 94-5, 98, 103, 177, 253
rocket, 5,127,149,176-7, 181,183,194-5
Generation starships, 35, 39, 120, 136, 171, 176, 239, 270
Goddard, Robert, 170, 172, 187
gravitational lens, 253
gravity assist, 95, 99
habitats, 3-4, 6, 13-14, 18, 83, 103-118, 172, 176, 201, 205-219, 235-6, 280, 301, 303, 305, 327
Hawkins, Stephen, 9, 285-6, 296
Heinlein, Robert A., 3, 129, 173, 327-8
Heliopause, 198, 232, 252
helium-3, 83, 94, 134, 182
hibernation, 21, 201, 205, 207
Hubble Space telescope, 19, 197
Icarus, See Project Icarus
Icarus Interstellar, 186, 191, 324
interstellar medium, 177-8, 180, 197-8, 232-3, 253, 255, 258
Interstellar precursor, 197
interstellar probe, 180, 221, 225
ion drive, 172
Jupiter, 6,22,33,120,126,169
mining of, 95-6, 98-9, 181
Kardashev civilizations, 24, 84
Kepler, Johannes, 169, 187
probe, 1, 22, 206, 230-1
Kuiper Belt, 11-12,15, 98-9,100,119,127,136,149,167,193,207,232,253
Lagrange point, 255-257
Landis, Geoffrey, 3, 183-4, 187
laser sail, 182-6
light beam propulsion , 282
light sail, 167, 184, 194, 203, 282
Lomberg, Jon, 159
magnetic sail (magsail), 184
Mann, Adrian, 202, 235
Mars, 19-22, 32, 45, 79, 83, 98-9, 100, 108, 119, 124, 147, 149, 152, 160, 175, 208, 216, 230, 236, 280, 305-6, 327-8
Martin, Anthony, 176, 178, 180
maser sail, 182
Matloff, Gregory, 179, 187, 198
Mercury, 96, 226, 229-31, 233
microwave sail, 183
Milky Way, 304
nanotech, 29, 21, 23, 139, 184-5, 198, 200, 217
Neptune, 96, 98, 172, 231-2
NERVA rocket, 124-6
Niven, Larry, 177-8
Nordley, Gerald D., 185, 187, 262
Nuclear electric propulsion (NEP), 95, 100, 126
nuclear rocket, 14, 83, 119, 121-127, 174, 177, 180-1, 186, 195
nuclear pulse rocket, 174
nuclear thermal rocket (NTR), 3, 5, 95-7, 99, 100, 121, 195
Oberth, Hermann, 170-1
Oort Cloud, 11-12, 98-99, 100, 120, 193, 198, 232-3, 255
Orion. see Project Orion
particle beam propulsion, 184
Peters, Thomas, 50
photon rocket, 173-4
Pioneer spacecraft, 166-7, 267
plasma, 28, 94-5, 121, 125-7, 175, 180, 201, 292
Pluto, 2, 11, 119, 225-6
Project Apollo, 2-4, 18-20, 28, 41, 45, 78, 85, 119-20, 124
Project Daedalus, 176, 180-2,190, 194, 272
Project Icarus, 5, 48, 186
Project Longshot, 181-2
Project Orion, 174-6, 327
Proxima Centauri, 12, 229
ramjet (Bussard ramjet), vi, 177-9, 184, 186
Rees, Martin, 251, 305
Robotics, 6, 19-22, 36, 83, 103, 200, 203, 324
Rocket
exhaust velocity, 95-99, 120-26, 175
fusion, 5,127,149,176-7, 181,183,194-5
NERVA, 124-6
nuclear, 14, 83, 119, 121-127, 174, 177, 180-1, 186, 195
nuclear pulse, 174
nuclear thermal (NTR), 3, 5, 95-7, 99, 100, 121, 195
Rover, 124
Rover rocket, 124
Saenger, Eugen, 173-4, 177-9
sailship, 5, 193-204, 235
Saturn, 33, 95-9, 120, 126, 167, 175, 226, 231, 233
mining of, 96-7, 99, 103, 120, 126, 181
moons of, 15, 37, 96-7, 233
Saturn V, 5, 28, 119, 175, 194
SETI ((Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence), 23, 180, 236
solar-electric propulsion, 121
solar sails, 179, 196, 198, 282
solar wind, 197
space colony, 33, 120, 176, 201, 268
space drive, 282-4
Space Shuttle, 14, 20
Space X, 31, 36
specific impulse, 95, 97, 120, 124
Sputnik, 18, 136
Stapledon, Olaf, 172-3, 237
Star Trek, 3-5, 30, 237, 279
Starwisp, 14, 183, 200-01,
Steele, Allen, 3, 50, 327
Sternbach, Rick, 264
Tau Ceti, 237, 239
Tau Zero, 3, 37, 178, 328
Tau Zero Foundation (TZF), 186, 191, 323
terraforming, 98,155, 305
Titan, 96-98, 100, 103, 233, 255
Uranus, 96, 98-9, 181-2, 231
Van Allen radiation belts, 121
Venus, 3, 28, 99, 172, 179, 193, 197, 229, 233, 256, 280
Verne, Jules, 170, 184, 186
Vinge, Vernor, 328
VISTA (Vehicle for Interplanetary Space Transport Application), 182
Voyager probes, 167, 225-6, 232, 236, 318
warp drive, 5, 50, 282, 284-9, 292
Wells, H. G., 170-1, 305
Wheeler, John, 289
wormhole, 5-6, 24, 282-297
Winterberg, Friedwardt, 1280, 187
World-ship, 176, 186
Wright Brothers, 18
Zubrin, Robert, 4, 181, 184, 201, 327