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Halfway to anywhere : achieving America's destiny in space
- Title
- Halfway to anywhere : achieving America's destiny in space / G. Harry Stine.
- Author
- Stine, G. Harry (George Harry), 1928-1997.
- Publication
- New York : M. Evans and Co., 1996.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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| Text | Request in advance | TL795.5 .S7397 1996 | Off-site |
Details
- Description
- xiv, 304 pages : illustrations; 24 cm
- Summary
- Halfway to Anywhere tells the story of the development and future potential of the reusable Single-Stage-To-Orbit (SSTO) spaceship - a spaceship NASA bureaucrats once said was impossible. But an experimental rocket, the DC-X, was built in twenty-two months with a tiny government contract and parts scrounged from space junk yards and Wal-mart. The DC-X first flew in 1993 and was repeatedly flown and tested until 1995; it proved the concepts of reusability and quick turnaround like an airliner.
- SSTO means economical, reliable, on demand space transportation of people and cargos to and from low-Earth orbit within a decade. Commercial spaceships that operate like airliners are possible and profitable, and Halfway to Anywhere tells how and why.
- Subjects
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [278]-287) and index.
- ISBN
- 0871318059
- LCCN
- 96018667
- OCLC
- 34878736
- ocm34878736
- Owning Institutions
- Columbia University Libraries