Spaceplanes: From Airport to Spaceport Paperback - 2008
by Matthew A. Bentley
From the rear cover
Someday, there may be plane-like vehicles that take off from a runway and fly high above Earth, bringing people to work in space, to stay at a space hotel, to visit a Moonbase, or to board another ship for a journey to a neighboring planet in the Solar System. Well, that time is coming, and it's coming sooner than you might think!
There are a number of private companies already taking reservations for passenger flights into suborbital space. There are companies drawing up plans for hotels in space and governments drawing up plans for Moonbases and eventual trips to Mars.
Although the fares for the soon-to-be-available suborbital "joy" rides are still rather steep, prices are coming down, and competition is growing fiercer. Matthew Bentley will guide you through the almost bewildering array of different kinds of spaceplanes being developed and show you what the new "spacelines" have in store for us. A strong believer in the ultimate economic advantages of spaceplanes over conventional launch vehicles, Bentley believes their development will guide us to a new and bigger era of space adventure--more grand than has ever been contemplated before.
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- Title Spaceplanes: From Airport to Spaceport
- Author Matthew A. Bentley
- Binding Paperback
- Edition U. S. EDITION
- Pages 238
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Springer
- Date 2008-12-12
- Illustrated Yes
- Features Bibliography, Glossary, Illustrated, Index
- ISBN 9780387765099 / 0387765093
- Weight 0.97 lbs (0.44 kg)
- Dimensions 9.1 x 6.1 x 0.6 in (23.11 x 15.49 x 1.52 cm)
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Themes
- Aspects (Academic): Science/Technology Aspects
- Library of Congress subjects Space flight, Outer space - Exploration
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 2008939140
- Dewey Decimal Code 629.47
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