This Ain’t Utopia Planitia: Believable Starship Designs PT1

[close] This Ain’t Utopia Planitia: Believable Starship Designs
A panel recorded at Ad Astra 2016 held at the Sheraton Parkway North, 600 HWY-7 E
Richmond Hill, Ontario
Available on Youtube:
Part 1: https://youtu.be/7a2D6CvR7JA
Part 2: https://youtu.be/WomF0bnOsTA

Media properties like Star Trek or Star Wars tell us that space travel is easy, and that starships act like boats or planes. This is a terrible, terrible lie. There’s a lot more to spaceflight than common media depictions show, and there’s a lot of mileage you can get by knowing some of the principles behind realistic spacecraft design.
Featuring: Andrew Barton, Cameron Currie, Eric Choi, Stephen B. Pearl
Ad Astra: www.ad-astra.org/about
Hotel: www.sheratonparkway.com
Andrew Barton:
Cameron Currie:
Eric Choi: www.aerospacewriter.ca
Stephen B. Pearl: www.stephenpearl.com
: www.amazon.com/Stephen-B.-Pearl/e/B00...