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Bibliographic Detail
Publisher
Imperial College Pr
Publication date
February 1, 2003
Pages
204
Binding
Paperback
Book category
Adult Non-Fiction
ISBN-13
9781860943256
ISBN-10
186094325X
Dimensions
0.50 by 6.50 by 9.50 in.
Weight
0.75 lbs.
Published in
Great Britain
Original list price
$45.00
Other format details
sci/tech
Summaries and Reviews
Amazon.com description: Product Description: A revolution in spaceflight is likely soon with the prospect of everyday access to orbit within fifteen years. Costly launch vehicles based on ballistic missiles will be replaced by 'spaceplanes', using technology that exists today. In five years' time, a prototype could be built, and with a further ten years of detailed development, the design could approach airliner maturity, reducing the cost of sending people into space some one thousand times to around US$20,000. Spaceplane development has, in effect, been suppressed by entrenched thinking and short-term vested interests. But the present monopoly of large government space agencies is becoming unsupportable, and the market that understands the very real opportunities for space travel will be reaching critical mass in the near future.This book examines these issues and shows why space tourism will one day become the single largest business in space, and how astronomy and environmental science will be transformed by low-cost access making possible instruments vastly larger than those of today.
Editions
Hardcover
from Imperial College Pr (February 1, 2003)
9781860943201 | details & prices | 204 pages | 6.50 × 9.75 × 0.75 in. | 1.50 lbs | List price $95.00
About: A revolution in spaceflight is likely soon, with the prospect of everyday access to orbit.
About: A revolution in spaceflight is likely soon, with the prospect of everyday access to orbit.
Paperback
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from Imperial College Pr (February 1, 2003)
9781860943256 | details & prices | 204 pages | 6.50 × 9.50 × 0.50 in. | 0.75 lbs | List price $45.00
About: A revolution in spaceflight is likely soon with the prospect of everyday access to orbit within fifteen years.
About: A revolution in spaceflight is likely soon with the prospect of everyday access to orbit within fifteen years.
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