This Ain’t Utopia Planitia: Believable Starship Designs

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

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