Research Catalog

Title

Realizing tomorrow : the path to private spaceflight / Chris Dubbs and Emeline Paat-Dahlstrom ; Foreword by Charles D. Walker.

Author

Dubbs, Chris.

Publication

Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, c2011.

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Additional Authors

Paat-Dahlstrom, Emeline.

Description

xii, 299 p. : ill.; 25 cm.

Summary

Presents a behind-the-scenes look at the quest to develop a private space program by individuals and commercial enterprises in America and Russia.

Series Statement

Outward odyssey : a people's history of spaceflight

Uniform Title

• Project Muse UPCC books
• Outward odyssey.

Subject

• Space flights
• Space tourism
• Space industrialization
• Space Flight
• Outer space > Civilian use

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. [269]-284) and index.

Contents

The entire population of the earth in orbit -- The birth of private rocket companies -- Private citizens get their chance in space -- Russia commercializes space -- Citizen explorers -- The quest for a reusable spaceship -- The ansari x prize launches an industry -- Private manned spaceflight makes history -- Space tourism goes mainstream -- It takes more than a spaceship to build an industry.

ISBN

• 9780803216105 (cloth : alk. paper)
• 0803216106 (cloth : alk. paper)

LCCN

^^2010046898

OCLC

679936537

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library