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Spaceplanes: From Airport to Spaceport

By Matthew A. Bentley (auth.)

Book information

Publisher
Springer-Verlag New York
Year
2009
ISBN
978-0-387-76510-5
DOI
10.1007/978-0-387-76510-5
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
5 MB (5328515 bytes)
Edition
1
Pages
238\242
Library
mirknig.com
Time added
2011-01-04 10:04:03
Aerospace Technology and Astronautics; Popular SciObservations and Techniques

Description

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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