Description: "The discovery in the last few decades of thousands of exoplanets orbiting nearby stars has made the age-old dream of interstellar travel a newly urgent scientific question. Initiatives like NASA's 100-Year Starship and the billionaire-funded Breakthrough Starshot are now investigating and developing new technologies that could one day enable humans to explore, perhaps even colonize, distant solar systems. This short, accessible book brings readers to the forefront of this new frontier, laying out both the challenges to be navigated and the latest thinking and scientific developments that could allow us to overcome them"--
Review Quotes: "You'd be hard pressed to find a better choice than a book covering what it would take to get man to another star system, written by one of the world's leading scientists actively working to turn science fiction into science fact."---Sean CW Korsgaard, Analog