How Feasible are Personal Spacecraft
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After being neglected for decades, spaceflight is now finally coming back around, and this time, it looks like it's here to stay.
More and more companies and countries are realizing that spaceflight can be a profitable commercial enterprise, it’s only a matter of time before we have routine flights to and from the Moon and Mars.
We'll soon have the equivalent of railways and ocean liners in space, but this lacks the personal freedom granted by cars and private aircraft.
What we're missing at this point are the personal spacecraft.
And as it turns out, the technologies that might enable personal spacecraft will also make spaceflight in general, so inexpensive and safe, that we'll finally get a Star Wars-like future.
First however, we must overcome some challenges before we get our real Millennium Falcons and X-wings, mustn't all the heroes of fiction overcome challenges to win their prize?
Credits:
Music:
Kevin MacLeod (Incompetech.com):
Cambodian Odyssey
Space Explorers
Opium
Babylon – Disco Ultralounge
Ross Bugden:
Ascension
Chris Zabriskie:
Divider
Silent Partner:
Desert Sky
Jingle Punks:
Blank Holes
Doug Maxwell:
Breathing Planet
Thanks to NASA, Wikipedia and its hard-working contributors, and various other sources for the use of their images and video clips.
Videos:
Apollo 11 Saturn V Launch Camera E-8: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DKtVpvzUF1Y
Delta Air Lines 777-200LR [N709DN] Landing Portland Airport (PDX): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pYPGL4mV0rU
2001 A Space Odyssey, centrifuge loop: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W_gItDrzQEw
Testing Transitions Inside Air-Breathing Scramjet Engines: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ADsDbjjBmOY
Scientific Sources:
NASA: https://ntrs.nasa.gov/archive/nasa/casi.ntrs.nasa.gov/19680012569.pdf, and: https://technology.nasa.gov/patent/GSC-TOPS-142
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Rick Robinson’s Rocketpunk Observatory, Interstellar Trade A Primer: http://www.rocketpunk-observatory.com/startrade.htm
Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, Mini-Magnetosphere Project: http://www.minimagnetosphere.rl.ac.uk/
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Miley et al: https://arxiv.org/abs/1511.03231
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Begum et al: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3483841/
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Kempf et al: http://www.oncotarget.com/index.php?journal=oncotarget&page=article&op=view&path[]=12376&path[]=39202
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Shaikhislamov et al: https://arxiv.org/pdf/1711.05984.pdf
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