Mars and Beyond – An Almost True Story of the Future of Mankind

It is the 15^th of December 2018 Earth Time. Almost the whole world population is in front of their TVs waiting for the launch of the US »Magnum« rocket which is supposed to take six astronauts to Mars. Two years before an unmanned »Magnum« rocket had already been launched. It had taken a cargo ship to Mars with an installation for the generation of rocket fuel, a living module, and a return capsule for the astronauts. For one and a half years it has been producing the fuel methane as well as oxygen for the astronauts out of the hydrogen brought along and the carbon dioxide of Mars's atmosphere. Everything was carefully prepared.

> more

Space Drives – Exotic Space Propulsions

The so-called "Space Drives" are a promising very new and more effective form of propulsion, but according to what we know today, this is a highly speculative approach. Space propulsion is an idealised form of propulsion, where the basic properties of matter and space-time are to be used for the forward drive in order to save the annoying recoil mass. Such an achievement would revolutionise astronautics, and because of the saved recoil mass the necessary weight of the space craft would be drastically reduced, the weight of interstellar space craft even by many orders of magnitude (!).

> more

The Lord is very Clever

Light which is faster than the velocity of light. Light which you can stop and let go again. Is that possible? Was Einstein not right after all?

These are the questions that have been on physicist's minds since 1994, when one of the authors of this book, Prof. Nimtz, chased Mozart's 40^th symphony through a so-called tunnel track with 4.7 times velocity of light, and the sound unfolded in all its beauty on the other side. Emotions were high when Nimtz and his staff member Enders presented their at that time quite vague results of the so-called superluminal tunnel effect on the yearly spring conference of the German Physical Society, then in Freudenstadt.

The Future of Mankind in the 3^rd Millenium – A Survey

»If you want to travel to the stars, look around for company.« This saying of the German poet Christian Friedrich Hebbel from the 19^th century is clearly visible above each of the ten entries of the space ark »Star I«. Hebbel at that time of course did not know that with this phrase he instinctively and very accurately described the circumstances of today, on the most important event of the third millenium. Today, on the 20^th of July 2969 A.D. mankind has accomplished the last logical step of a development that started exactly one thousand years ago: The first emigration of men from the solar system to another star called »d Pavonis« 18.6 light years away from the home planet Earth

> more

Space Law - Liability in Space

Susanne U. Reif
in: Spektrum der Wissenschaft, November 2004, p. 83-85
> more

Space Law - Property in Space?

Alexander Soucek
in: Star Observer, April 2004, p. 29-36
> more

A Topsy-turvy World - Ball Game in Space

Prof. Dr. Ulrich Walter
Published with the title: "Verkehrte Welt - Ballspielen im All"
in: Star Observer, May 1998, p. 90-92
> more

Fleeing the Sun Death

Prof. Dr. Ulrich Walter
in: Bild der Wissenschaft, November 2000, p. 54-56
< more

The Evolution of Man in the Cosmos

in German
Prof. Dr. Ulrich Walter
in: Der Mensch im Kosmos IV, Shaker Verlag, 2005
< more