Realizing tomorrow [electronic resource] : the path to private spaceflight / Chris Dubbs and Emeline Paat-Dahlstrom ; Foreword by Charles D. Walker.
Material type: TextSeries: Outward odyssey: a people's history of spaceflight | UPCC book collections on Project MUSEPublication details: Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, c2011. 2015)Description: 1 online resource (xii, 299 p. :) illContent type:- text
- computer
- online resource
- 9780803235274
- 0803235275
- 629.4/1 22
- TL790 .D79 2011
Includes bibliographical references (p. [269]-284) and index.
The entire population of the earth in orbit -- The birth of private rocket companies -- Private citizens get their chance in space -- Russia commercializes space -- Citizen explorers -- The quest for a reusable spaceship -- The ansari x prize launches an industry -- Private manned spaceflight makes history -- Space tourism goes mainstream -- It takes more than a spaceship to build an industry.
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