About the Book
Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 139. Chapters: Hypothetical spacecraft, Megastructures, Space elevator, Dyson sphere, Bussard ramjet, Ringworld, Death Star, Trantor, Orbital, Generation ship, Stanford torus, Preliminary Design of an Experimental World-Circling Spaceship, Sleeper ship, Starwisp, Unicron, Mega-City One, Non-rocket spacelaunch, Great Wall of China, Self-replicating spacecraft, Space tether, Space elevator safety, Dyson spheres in popular culture, Bering Strait crossing, Brit-Cit, Halo, Proposed tall buildings and structures, Space elevators in fiction, Launch loop, Lunar space elevator, Atlantropa, Space elevator economics, Banaue Rice Terraces, Space fountain, Space sunshade, Traction City, Coruscant, Interstellar ark, Island Three, Star lifting, Vactrain, Hondo City, Globus Cassus, Transatlantic tunnel, Matrioshka brain, Space gun, Trans Global Highway, Tipler cylinder, The City of Gold, Project Daedalus, Space dock, Ciudad Barranquilla, Rama, Skyhook, Elevator:2010, Bracewell probe, Stellar engine, Sea Dragon, Buster Machine III, Well World, Orbital ring, Ecumenopolis, British Rail flying saucer, LaserMotive, Project Valkyrie, LiftPort Group, Sungbo's Eredo, Megascale engineering, Space elevator construction, Rocket sled launch, Astrochicken, Project Longshot, Alderson disk, Pendor, Walls of Benin, Bishop Ring, Cross generation ship, Black hole starship, Dyson-Harrop satellite, New Babylon, Metropolitan Area Outer Underground Discharge Channel, San Alfonso del Mar, Shadow Planet Killer, McKendree cylinder, Godwheel, Road City, Innovative Interstellar Explorer, Cosmopolitan Railway, Starseed launcher, Astronomical engineering, NEXUS, Topopolis, Moonbus, Artificial world, Astroengineering, Greater East Asia Railroad. Excerpt: A space elevator is a proposed non-rocket spacelaunch structure (a structure designed to transport material from a celesti...