Warp drive: From imagination to reality

JBIS - Journal of the British Interplanetary Society

Volumn 61, Issue 9, 2008, Pages 353-357

  Gardiner, Jeremy ^a  

^a NONE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Faster than light; Futurology; Space travel; Warp drive

Indexed keywords

SCHEDULING;

APOLLO 11; FUTUROLOGY; MOON LANDING; PROJECT ESTIMATION; SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY; SETTING OUTS; SPACE TRAVEL; TIME-SCALES;

MOON;

EID: 50249150887     PISSN: 0007084X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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