Title

Building A Bridge To The Stars: Authority, Leadership And Structure

Keywords

Authority patterns; Human survival; Isolation and human societies

Abstract

Mounting a 100 year crewed expedition to another star requires that one think carefully about how relationships within the crew are handled and how authority, organization structure and leadership are established, maintained and adapted during different stages in the expedition's history. The analysis suggests three distinct phases occur depending on whether planet fall has occurred or not. Building flexibility and adaptability into human societies especially isolated ones remains a significant challenge if the exploration-colonization effort is to prosper over the long term. This will be a new society whose margins of survival will be problematic.

Publication Date

1-1-2014

Publication Title

JBIS - Journal of the British Interplanetary Society

Volume

67

Issue

4

Number of Pages

141-144

Document Type

Article; Proceedings Paper

Personal Identifier

scopus

Socpus ID

84904683276 (Scopus)

Source API URL

https://api.elsevier.com/content/abstract/scopus_id/84904683276

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