During 1978, following a design study (known as “Project Daedalus”) by members of the British Interplanetary Society (“BIS”), a design for an interstellar probe is proposed.
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Book References
For discussion of Project Daedalus see the following:
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Achenbach, Joel in his “Captured by Aliens” (1999) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 154-155 (in Chapter 14) of the Simon and Schuster hardback edition. |
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Alschuler, William in his “The Science of UFOs” (2001) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 57 (in Chapter 3) of the St Martin’s Press hardback edition. |
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Angelo, Joseph A in his “The Extraterrestrial Encyclopedia: Man’s Search for Life in Outer Space” (1985) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 70 (in the entry entitled “interstellar contact”) of the revised 1991 Fact on File hardback edition. |
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Angelo, Joseph A in his “The Extraterrestrial Encyclopedia: Man’s Search for Life in Outer Space” (1985) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 139-140 (in the entry entitled “Project Daedalus”), 201, 202 (in the entry entitled “starship”) of the revised 1991 Fact on File hardback edition. |
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Ashpole, Edward in his “The Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence“ (1989) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 132-133 (in Chapter 8) of the Blandford softcover edition. |
2 |
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Ashpole, Edward in his “The UFO Phenomena” (1995) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 169-171 (in Chapter 14) of the Headline hardback edition. |
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Ashpole, Edward in his “Where is Everybody?” (1997) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 138-139 (in Chapter 9) of the Sigma Press softcover edition. |
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Berry, Adrian in his “From Apes to Astronauts” (1980) at pages 32-35 (in the unnumbered chapter entitled “Cruising at 84 million mph”) of the Daily Telegraph paperback edition. |
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Berry, Adrian in his “The Giant Leap” (1999) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 25 (in Chapter 2), 145, 147 (in Chapter 11) of the revised Headline softcover edition. |
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Bizony, Piers in his “The Exploration of Mars: Searching for the Cosmic Origins of Life” (1997) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 171-173 (in Chapter 8) of the Aurum softcover edition. |
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Clark, Andrew J H and Clark, David H in their “Aliens“ (1999) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 204 (in Chapter 6) of the Fromm hardback edition. |
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Crawford, Ian A in “Extraterrestrials: Where are they?” (1982) (edited by Michael Hart and Ben Zuckerman) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 51-53 (in Chapter 8) of the Cambridge softcover second edition. The relevant chapter is a revised and abridged version of an article published under the title “Interstellar Travel: A Review for Astronomers” in Quarterly Journal of the Royal Astronomical Society, Volume 31 (1990) at pages 377-400. The text of that article is available free online at: http://www.star.ucl.ac.uk/~iac/isflight/isflight.html |
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Darling, David in his “The Extraterrestrial Encyclopedia” (2000) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 97 (in the entry entitled “Daedalus, Project”) of the Three Rivers softcover edition. |
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Darling, David in his online encyclopedia, “The Encyclopedia of Astrobiology, Astronomy and Spaceflight” (2003) in the entry entitled “Daedalus, Project”. The relevant entry is available online at: http://www.daviddarling.info/encyclopedia/D/Daedalus.html |
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Davidson, Keay in his “Carl Sagan: A Life” (1999) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 347 (in Chapter 14) of the Wiley softcover edition. |
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Dyson, Freeman in “Extraterrestrials: Where are they?” (1982) (edited by Michael Hart and Ben Zuckerman) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 46 (in Chapter 7) of the Cambridge softcover second edition. |
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Edelson, Edward in his “Who Goes There?” (1978) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 90 (in Chapter 8) of the NEL paperback edition(with the same page numbering in the NEL paperback edition combining this book and Chris Boyce’s Extraterrestrial Encounter). |
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Feinberg, Gerald and Shapiro, Robert in their “Life Beyond Earth” (1980) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 433-434 (in Chapter 14) of the Morrow hardback edition. |
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Friedman, Stanton in his “Flying Saucers and Science : A Scientist Investigates the Mysteries of UFOs” (2008) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 80-84 (in Chapter 2) of the New Page softcover edition. |
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Greenwell, J Richard in “The Encyclopedia of Extraterrestrial Encounters” (2001) (edited by Ronald Story) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 175-176 (in an entry entitled “Extraterrestrial Hypothesis”) of the New American Library softcover edition, at page 172 of the pdf edition (with the same page numbering in the Microsoft Word edition). |
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Greenwell, J Richard in “The Mammoth Encyclopedia of Extraterrestrial Encounters” (2001) (edited by Ronald Story) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 211 (in an entry entitled “Extraterrestrial Hypothesis”) of the Robinson softcover edition. |
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Greenwell, Richard J in “The Encyclopedia of UFOs” (1980) (edited by Ronald Story) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 116 (forming part of an entry entitled “Extraterrestrial hypothesis”) of the NEL hardback edition. |
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Hansen, Terry in his “The Missing Times : News Media Complicity in the UFO Cover-Up : News Media Complicity in the UFO Cover -Up” (2000) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 45 (in Chapter 1) of the Xlibris softcover edition. |
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Kuiper, Thomas B H and Morris, Mark in “The Quest For Extraterrestrial Life : A Book of Readings” (1980) (edited by Donald Goldsmith) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 171 (in Chapter 34) of the University Science Books hardback edition. The relevant chapter is a reprint of “Searching for Extraterrestrial Civilizations” Science, Volume 196, pages 616-621 (1977). |
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Mallove, Eugene F and Matloff, Gregory L in their “The Starflight Handbook” (1989) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 14 (in Chapter 1), 67-69 (in Chapter 4) of the Wiley hardback edition. |
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Mann, Adrian on his website “This is rocket science” (2002), at the link below: http://www.aemann.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/spacecraft/daedalus/daedalus.html |
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Marvels and Mysteries (Editors Of) in “Marvels and Mysteries: UFOs” (1997) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 109 of the Parrallel softcover edition. |
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Nicolson, Iain in his “The Road to the Stars” (1988) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 138-140 (in Chapter 7) of the Book Club Associates hardback edition. |
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Parker, Barry in his “Alien Life” (1998) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 206-207 (in Chapter 12) of the Plenum Trade hardback edition. |
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Powers, Robert M in his “The Coattails of God: The Trip to the Stars” (1981) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 49-51 (in Chapter 3), 132-135 (in Chapter 7) of the Warner paperback edition. |
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Ridpath, Ian in his “Life Off Earth” (1983) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 76, 78, 80 (in Chapter 6) of the Granada hardback edition. |
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Ridpath, Ian in his “Messages from the Stars” (1978) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 98-105, 107, 108-110 (in Chapter 6) of the Fontana paperback edition. |
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Ridpath, Ian in his “Worlds Beyond” (1975) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 153-155 (in Chapter 8) of the Wildwood House softcover edition, at pages 160-163 of the revised 1977 Penguin softcover edition entitled “Signs of Life”. |
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Roulet, Alfred in his “The Search for Intelligent Life in Outer Space” (1973) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 58-61 (in the unnumbered chapter entitled “Hello, Out There”) of the Berkley paperback edition. |
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Sagan, Carl in his “Cosmos“ (1980) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 231-232 (in Chapter 8) of the Abacus softcover edition. |
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Singer, Cliff in “Extraterrestrials: Where are they?” (1982) (edited by Michael Hart and Ben Zuckerman) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 70 (in Chapter 9) of the Cambridge softcover second edition. |
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Stoneley, Jack and Lawton, A T in their “CETI: Communication with Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence” (1976) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 12-13 (in the Introduction), 91-96 (Chapter 10 generally), 97-101 (Chapter 11 generally), 102-107 (Chapter 12 generally), 108-115 (Chapter 13 generally), 233-235, 240-244 (in the Appendix) of the Star Books paperback edition. |
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Von Daniken, Erich in his “According to the evidence” (1977) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 71-74 (in Chapter 2) of the Souvenir Press hardback edition. |
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Other Material
Bond, A., Martin, A. R., Buckland, R. A., Grant, T. J., Lawton, A. T., et al. "Project Daedalus." Journal of the British Interplanetary Society, 31 (Supplement, 1978).