Problems and perspectives in Interstellar exploration

JBIS - Journal of the British Interplanetary Society

Volumn 52, Issue 9-10, 1999, Pages 307-323

  Vulpetti, G ^a  

^a TELESPAZIO S P A   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HUMAN KNOWLEDGE; INTERSTELLAR EXPLORATION; INTERSTELLAR FLIGHT;

SPACE FLIGHT;

EID: 22344435507     PISSN: 0007084X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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