Enzmann Echolance: Reach For The Stars

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A common feature was that the crew area was replicated 3 times for redundancy, and a common core pillar ran the length of the spacecraft and through the center of each habitation unit. As a member of the team that built the Atlas, the first ICBM, he was at the forefront of the space race.

I spoke with Rick Sternbach and Don Davis, both of whom helped depict and design Dr Enzmann’s concepts. Last week a reaction wheel on NASA’s Kepler spacecraft failed, putting the future of the extrasolar planet hunting spacecraft into jeopardy. And although George Marx and Robert Forward had already been examining pushing a large sail with a laser (Forward’s work went back to the early 1960s), Stine seems unaware of it. Even more impressive is that all of this information was available back in (at least) the 80s, but was shut down.I don’t know how many neutrons it takes to get started, but I do not think it is a given that only a fission primary can generate them. The Enzmann starship was detailed in the October 1973 issue of Analog, with a cover by space artist Rick Sternbach. Dyson’s ultimate craft was capable of speeds of 10,000 kilometers per second, enabling a mission to Alpha Centauri with deceleration at the destination in 130 years.

For one, the ship is still in the conceptual stage, meaning we’re probably a few centuries away from actually building one. Stine points out that a Saturn V without the Apollo escape tower would lie sideways inside this cylinder, which contains nearly a half-million cubic feet of living space. This book has a detailed review of people who were in the forefront of the space effort, spanning the entire 20th century and into the 21st. The proposed method of tank construction would be to expand a plastic balloon in space and coat it with metal.

Finance is provided by PayPal Credit (a trading name of PayPal UK Ltd, Whittaker House, Whittaker Avenue, Richmond-Upon-Thames, Surrey, United Kingdom, TW9 1EH). Enzmann's thoughts on technological developments, and our future as our society selects its development. Enzmann was silenced for over 40 years, although he was able to publish descriptions of vastly less efficient but workable interstellar drives in those years. Overall specifications have varied somewhat, but the design has nuclear pulse engines at the rear, then cylinders for human habitation, then closer the front a large ball of fuel.

A few tons of food and O2 per crew member/year might be an easier way to go than full recycling, if food can be made shelf stable for a century or more.Kepler has done what the program managers said it would do, and that is to give us an inventory of extrasolar planets. They can even take selfies with passing stars, although the nearest Wi-Fi hotspot might be a few light-years away. He also worked on the project alongside William Borucki, the Kepler science principal investigator at Ames and the driving force behind the effort, for the decades leading up to formal approval of the mission. The Enzmann could function as an interstellar ark, supporting a crew of 200 but with space for expansion.