Toward Distant Suns

by T.A. Heppenheimer

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.

264 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1979

About the author

Thomas A. Heppenheimer (January 1, 1947 – September 9, 2015) holds a Ph.D. in aerospace engineering from the University of Michigan, and is an associate fellow of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics. He has held research fellowships in planetary science at California Institute of Technology and at the Max Planck Institute in Heidelberg, Germany.

He has been a freelance writer since 1978. He has written extensively on aerospace, business and government, and the history of technology. He is a frequent contributor to American Heritage and its affiliated publications, and to Air & Space. He has also written for the National Academy of Sciences, and contributed regularly to Mosaic of the National Science Foundation. He has written some 300 published articles for more than two dozen publications.

Reviews

[Michael · Rating 3 out of 5]

Not enough detail to be science.

Not enough detail to be science fiction.