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Author:

Dubbs, Chris.

Title:

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

Publisher:

University of Nebraska Press,

Copyright Date:

c2011

Description:

xii, 299 p., [26] p. of plates : ill. ; 24 cm.

Subject:

Space flights.
Space tourism.
Outer space--Civilian use.
Space industrialization.

Other Authors:

Paat-Dahlstrom, Emeline.

Notes:

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.

Series:

Outward odyssey : a people's history of spaceflight

ISBN:

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

OCLC:

(OCoLC)679936537

LCCN:

2010046898

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

KSPG296 -- Burlington Public Library (Burlington)

IBAX173 -- North Iowa Area Community College Library (Mason City)