Abstract
No matter how we travel to the stars, we must learn all we can about the environments surrounding these distant suns. Only then can we dispatch out robot proxies or begin outfitting the ships to be occupied by humanity’s first interstellar pioneers.
And there is a star in the southern sky,
the most magnificent star that I have ever seen,
and I am beginning to know its name,
Alpha Centauri
Robert Ardrey, African Genesis (1961)
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Matloff, G.L. (2000). Of stars, planets and life. In: Deep-Space Probes. Space Exploration. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4471-3641-5_10
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