by Ben Bova (Author), Anthony R . Lewis (Author)
Space Travel explains science, to help you make your fiction plausible. You'll engineer your rockets with accurate technical data. Show your characters' physical responses to weightlessness. Know the environment of space, how inhospitable it is - and how it's opening for business. Build an Earth-orbiting habitat for your story's setting. Discover our solar system ... and the staggering immensity of interstellar space. Consider the prospect of near-lightspeed travel. Imagine the conflicts, legal and military, your fictional missions might spark. In this book, you'll see what is real today - and what may become real tomorrow.
Format: Paperback
Pages: 273
Edition: illustrated edition
Publisher: Writer's Digest Books
Published: Oct 1997
ISBN 10: 0898797470
ISBN 13: 9780898797473