Toward Distant Suns - Softcover
Addresses the problems of technology and lifestyle which will confront future space explorers and settlers, suggesting solutions to space construction, work in space, tourism, space war, and interstellar colonization
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T. A. Heppenheimer is a planetary scientist with a Ph.D. in aerospace engineering. A former researching at California Institute of Technology, he also has held a research fellowship in Germany, and now is vice-president of K.R.G., Inc. In 1971 he confounded the Forum for Advancement of Students in Science and Technology. Heppenheimer is the author of some fifty technical papers which have appeared in leading scientific journals. He is a Fellow of the British Interplanetary Society, and Associate Fellow of the American Insitute of Aeronautics and astronautics. He is listed in Who’s Who in Aviation, Who’s Who in the World and Men of Ahievement.
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“Mr. Heppenheimer takes us into the infinite world of the coming space age and tells us everything there is the know about it...” –Isaac Asimov (Isaac Asimov)
“Nothing is missing from Heppenheimer’s space fantasy.” –New York Review of Books (New York Review of Books)
“Nothing is missing from Heppenheimer’s space fantasy.” –New York Review of Books (New York Review of Books)
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- PublisherBallantine Books
- Publication date1980
- ISBN 10 0449900355
- ISBN 13 9780449900352
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages256
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