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Project Daedalus study
During 1978, following a design study (known as “Project Daedalus”) by members of the British Interplanetary Society (“BIS”), a design for an interstellar probe is proposed.

 

 

 

Sections below

1. Web Resources

2. Book References

3. Other material

 

Web Resources

There is a rapid turnover of UFO material on the Internet. Many links to material on UFO websites quickly become out of date. Therefore, instead of giving many links to specific webpages I have instead included below a search box which can be used to search various leading UFO websites at the same time. You can then click on tabs at the top of the search results to list only results from forums, only results from websites I have labelled as "skeptical" etc. I have included tabs for a couple of specific websites that I find particularly useful, including the valuable archives of the UFO UpDates email discussion List. The relevant websites are all listed in the discussion of the "UFO Searchillion" search engine in Section 2.4 of the "Free UFO Researcher Starter Pack" and continues to evolve...

 

The relevant search box is one of the two main tools on this website which are intended to help reduce the amount of reinvention of the wheel within UFOlogy. The other main tool is the collection of tables of references to discussion of UFO incidents, personalities and other matters in various books. Those tables can be sorted by author, length and date. I hope these tools are useful.

 

 

 

Book References

The table below includes references to relevant discussions in UFO/SETI books noted by Isaac Koi during a review of approximately 963 UFO/SETI books during the period 2003-2006 (with a few later additions). The table can be sorted by author, date and length of discussion by clicking on the relevant word in the top line of the table.

Many of the tables of references on this website are considerably longer than the references to books found on most other UFO websites. Indeed, some are probably the longest that have been collated in relation to some events and personalities. Together with the "UFO Searchillion" search box, I hope that these tables are found to be a useful contribution to UFOlogy.

For discussion of Project Daedalus see the following:

 

Year

Discussion by:

 

No. of Pages

1999

Achenbach, Joel in his “Captured by Aliens” (1999) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 154-155 (in Chapter 14) of the Simon and Schuster hardback edition.

2

2001

Alschuler, William in his “The Science of UFOs” (2001) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 57 (in Chapter 3) of the St Martin’s Press hardback edition.

1

1985

Angelo, Joseph A in his “The Extraterrestrial Encyclopedia: Man’s Search for Life in Outer Space” (1985) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 70 (in the entry entitled “interstellar contact”) of the revised 1991 Fact on File hardback edition.

1

1985

Angelo, Joseph A in his “The Extraterrestrial Encyclopedia: Man’s Search for Life in Outer Space” (1985) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 139-140 (in the entry entitled “Project Daedalus”), 201, 202 (in the entry entitled “starship”) of the revised 1991 Fact on File hardback edition.

2

1989

Ashpole, Edward in his “The Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence“ (1989) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 132-133 (in Chapter 8) of the Blandford softcover edition.

2

1995

Ashpole, Edward in his “The UFO Phenomena” (1995) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 169-171 (in Chapter 14) of the Headline hardback edition.

3

1997

Ashpole, Edward in his “Where is Everybody?” (1997) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 138-139 (in Chapter 9) of the Sigma Press softcover edition.

2

1980

Berry, Adrian in his “From Apes to Astronauts” (1980) at pages 32-35 (in the unnumbered chapter entitled “Cruising at 84 million mph”) of the Daily Telegraph paperback edition.

4

1999

Berry, Adrian in his “The Giant Leap” (1999) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 25 (in Chapter 2), 145, 147 (in Chapter 11) of the revised Headline softcover edition.

3

1997

Bizony, Piers in his “The Exploration of Mars: Searching for the Cosmic Origins of Life” (1997) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 171-173 (in Chapter 8) of the Aurum softcover edition.

3

1999

Clark, Andrew J H and Clark, David H in their “Aliens“ (1999) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 204 (in Chapter 6) of the Fromm hardback edition.

1

1982

Crawford, Ian A in “Extraterrestrials: Where are they?” (1982) (edited by Michael Hart and Ben Zuckerman) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 51-53 (in Chapter 8) of the Cambridge softcover second edition. The relevant chapter is a revised and abridged version of an article published under the title “Interstellar Travel: A Review for Astronomers” in Quarterly Journal of the Royal Astronomical Society, Volume 31 (1990) at pages 377-400. The text of that article is available free online at: http://www.star.ucl.ac.uk/~iac/isflight/isflight.html

3

2000

Darling, David in his “The Extraterrestrial Encyclopedia” (2000) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 97 (in the entry entitled “Daedalus, Project”) of the Three Rivers softcover edition.

1

2003

Darling, David in his online encyclopedia, “The Encyclopedia of Astrobiology, Astronomy and Spaceflight” (2003) in the entry entitled “Daedalus, Project”. The relevant entry is available online at: http://www.daviddarling.info/encyclopedia/D/Daedalus.html

1

1999

Davidson, Keay in his “Carl Sagan: A Life” (1999) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 347 (in Chapter 14) of the Wiley softcover edition.

1

1982

Dyson, Freeman in “Extraterrestrials: Where are they?” (1982) (edited by Michael Hart and Ben Zuckerman) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 46 (in Chapter 7) of the Cambridge softcover second edition.

1

1978

Edelson, Edward in his “Who Goes There?” (1978) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 90 (in Chapter 8) of the NEL paperback edition(with the same page numbering in the NEL paperback edition combining this book and Chris Boyce’s Extraterrestrial Encounter).

1

1980

Feinberg, Gerald and Shapiro, Robert in their “Life Beyond Earth” (1980) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 433-434 (in Chapter 14) of the Morrow hardback edition.

2

2008

Friedman, Stanton in his “Flying Saucers and Science : A Scientist Investigates the Mysteries of UFOs” (2008) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 80-84 (in Chapter 2) of the New Page softcover edition.

5

2001

Greenwell, J Richard in “The Encyclopedia of Extraterrestrial Encounters” (2001) (edited by Ronald Story) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 175-176 (in an entry entitled “Extraterrestrial Hypothesis”) of the New American Library softcover edition, at page 172 of the pdf edition (with the same page numbering in the Microsoft Word edition).

2

2001

Greenwell, J Richard in “The Mammoth Encyclopedia of Extraterrestrial Encounters” (2001) (edited by Ronald Story) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 211 (in an entry entitled “Extraterrestrial Hypothesis”) of the Robinson softcover edition.

1

1980

Greenwell, Richard J in “The Encyclopedia of UFOs” (1980) (edited by Ronald Story) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 116 (forming part of an entry entitled “Extraterrestrial hypothesis”) of the NEL hardback edition.

1

2000

Hansen, Terry in his “The Missing Times : News Media Complicity in the UFO Cover-Up : News Media Complicity in the UFO Cover -Up” (2000) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 45 (in Chapter 1) of the Xlibris softcover edition.

1

1980

Kuiper, Thomas B H and Morris, Mark in “The Quest For Extraterrestrial Life : A Book of Readings” (1980) (edited by Donald Goldsmith) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 171 (in Chapter 34) of the University Science Books hardback edition. The relevant chapter is a reprint of “Searching for Extraterrestrial Civilizations” Science, Volume 196, pages 616-621 (1977).

1

1989

Mallove, Eugene F and Matloff, Gregory L in their “The Starflight Handbook” (1989) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 14 (in Chapter 1), 67-69 (in Chapter 4) of the Wiley hardback edition.

3

2002

Mann, Adrian on his website “This is rocket science” (2002), at the link below: http://www.aemann.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/spacecraft/daedalus/daedalus.html

8

1997

Marvels and Mysteries (Editors Of) in “Marvels and Mysteries: UFOs” (1997) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 109 of the Parrallel softcover edition.

1

1988

Nicolson, Iain in his “The Road to the Stars” (1988) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 138-140 (in Chapter 7) of the Book Club Associates hardback edition.

3

1998

Parker, Barry in his “Alien Life” (1998) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 206-207 (in Chapter 12) of the Plenum Trade hardback edition.

2

1981

Powers, Robert M in his “The Coattails of God: The Trip to the Stars” (1981) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 49-51 (in Chapter 3), 132-135 (in Chapter 7) of the Warner paperback edition.

7

1983

Ridpath, Ian in his “Life Off Earth” (1983) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 76, 78, 80 (in Chapter 6) of the Granada hardback edition.

3

1978

Ridpath, Ian in his “Messages from the Stars” (1978) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 98-105, 107, 108-110 (in Chapter 6) of the Fontana paperback edition.

11

1975

Ridpath, Ian in his “Worlds Beyond” (1975) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 153-155 (in Chapter 8) of the Wildwood House softcover edition, at pages 160-163 of the revised 1977 Penguin softcover edition entitled “Signs of Life”.

3

1973

Roulet, Alfred in his “The Search for Intelligent Life in Outer Space” (1973) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 58-61 (in the unnumbered chapter entitled “Hello, Out There”) of the Berkley paperback edition.

4

1980

Sagan, Carl in his “Cosmos“ (1980) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 231-232 (in Chapter 8) of the Abacus softcover edition.

2

1982

Singer, Cliff in “Extraterrestrials: Where are they?” (1982) (edited by Michael Hart and Ben Zuckerman) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 70 (in Chapter 9) of the Cambridge softcover second edition.

1

1976

Stoneley, Jack and Lawton, A T in their “CETI: Communication with Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence” (1976) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 12-13 (in the Introduction), 91-96 (Chapter 10 generally), 97-101 (Chapter 11 generally), 102-107 (Chapter 12 generally), 108-115 (Chapter 13 generally), 233-235, 240-244 (in the Appendix) of the Star Books paperback edition.

35

1977

Von Daniken, Erich in his “According to the evidence” (1977) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 71-74 (in Chapter 2) of the Souvenir Press hardback edition.

4

 

Other Material

Bond, A., Martin, A. R., Buckland, R. A., Grant, T. J., Lawton, A. T., et al. "Project Daedalus." Journal of the British Interplanetary Society, 31 (Supplement, 1978).

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