Interstellar Now! Missions to and Sample Returns from Nearby Interstellar Objects

Abstract

Whitepaper #359 submitted to the Planetary Science and Astrobiology Decadal Survey 2023-2032. Topics: life and prebiotic organics; other science themes: Missions to Interstellar Objects; primitive bodies

Authors 9

1. Andreas Makoto Hein
   Affiliation as printed

   Institute for Interstellar Studies

2. T. M. Eubanks
   Affiliation as printed

   Space Initiatives Inc. and Institute for Interstellar Studies

   Space Initiatives

3. Adam Hibberd
   Affiliation as printed

   Institute for Interstellar Studies

4. Dan Fries
   Affiliation as printed

   Institute for Interstellar Studies

5. Jean Schneider

   Observatoire de Paris

   Affiliation as printed

   Paris Observatory

6. Manasvi Lingam

   Florida Institute of Technology · Harvard University

   Affiliation as printed

   Department of Aerospace, Physics and Space Science, Florida Institute of Technology, and Institute of Theory and Computation, Harvard University

   Institute of Theory and Computation, Harvard University

7. Nikolaos Perakis

   Technical University of Munich

   Affiliation as printed

   Department of Space Propulsion, Technical University of Munich and Institute for Interstellar Studies

   Institute for Interstellar Studies

8. Bernd Dachwald Aachen

   FH Aachen

   Affiliation as printed

   FH Aachen University of Applied Sciences

9. P. Kervella

   Observatoire de Paris

   Affiliation as printed

   Paris Observatory