Research Catalog

Title

Making space happen : private space ventures and the visionaries behind them / Paula Berinstein.

Author

Berinstein, Paula.

Publication

Medford, N.J. : Plexus, c2002.

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Details

Description

xxvi, 490 p., [16] p. of plates : ill. (chiefly col.); 23 cm.

Subjects

• Outer space > Civilian use > Economic aspects
• Space tourism
• Space industrialization
• United States > National Aeronautics and Space Administration

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 439-441) and index.

Contents

Space tourism? : where'd they come up with an idea like that? -- Tom Rogers : moving space tourism from page zero to page one -- Harvey Wichman : you can't throw your socks on the floor in a spacecraft -- Space and the body : are we robust enough to venture out? -- Patrick Collins : would you pay $25,000 for a space vacation? -- Peter Diamandis, Buzz Aldrin, and Ron Jones : how in tarnation are we going to get off the earth? -- Kirby Ikin, Tom Olson, and Paul Contursi : the bottom line--funding and insurance -- Robert Zubrin : the fast track to Mars -- Wendell Mendell : mooning over the past -- Greg Bennett : to the Moon -- What's up with NASA? -- John Lewis : raw materials from the sky -- Jim Benson : space entrepreneur extraordinaire -- Denise Norris : marketing space -- Charles Miller : legislating space -- Rick Tumlinson and James George : advocating space -- Alonzo Fyfe : but is it the right thing to do? -- Alan Wasser : who owns space? -- Rene Schaad : space around the world--this one, that is -- Whither humans in space?

Call Number

JSE 03-1599

ISBN

0966674839 (pbk.)

LCCN

2002001564

OCLC

48958412

Author

Berinstein, Paula.

Title

Making space happen : private space ventures and the visionaries behind them / Paula Berinstein.

Imprint

Medford, N.J. : Plexus, c2002.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (p. 439-441) and index.

Research Call Number

JSE 03-1599