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02276cam a22003254a 4500 001 8C8678A02B0A11DE8AF32708A8D7520A 005 200904162345.0 008 050609s2005 vaua 001 1 eng 010 $a 2005016557 020 $a 9781563476969 020 $a 1563476967 035 $a (OCoLC)60644703 040 $a DLC $c DLC $d SILO $d BAKER $d C#P $d IWA $d SILO 050 00 $a TL785.8.L3 $b S84 2005 082 00 $a 629.44/1 $2 22 100 1 $a Stiennon, Patrick J. G. 245 1 $a The rocket company / $c by Patrick J.G. Stiennon and David M. Hoerr ; illustrated by Doug Birkholz. 260 $a Reston, Va. : $b AIAA/American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, $c c2005. 300 $a xiii, 263 p. : $b ill. ; $c 23 cm. 500 $a Includes index. 505 0 $a Seven billionaires and one big problem -- Big telescopes, hot rodders, and librarians -- Gateses, Jobses, and the laureates' lemma -- Build big, build many, or use it again -- Small market, small payload, but not a toy -- Myths, mistrust, and trust -- The pitch -- The business plan -- Mazes, stop cords, and skunk workers -- Fuel tanks, heat shields, and fire walls -- Balloon tanks, fracture mechanics, and friction stir welding -- Enthusiasm bubbles, ejections, and expander cycles -- Gasoline, alcohol, kerosene, or liquid methane -- Design reviews, prototypes, and parawings -- Guidance, navigation, and control -- Webb suit, hard suit, space suit -- Markets, philosophy, techniques, and approaches -- Rockets, jets, and soft landings -- Pilots, payloads, and passengers -- Mooncars, monks, and monasteries -- Aliens, cheetahs, and archea -- Halfway to everywhere -- First stage, first flight -- Stop the production line! -- Earth below us -- Money, manufacturing, and marketing -- Always room for improvement -- Epilogue I Space is finally a place -- Epilogue II Mars for the many. 650 0 $a Launch vehicles (Astronautics) $x Design and construction $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Reusable space vehicles $v Fiction. 650 0 $a New business enterprises $z United States $x Finance. $v Fiction. 700 1 $a Hoerr, David M. 939 $a 5487603 941 $a 1 952 $l USUX851 $d 20171003034100.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=8C8678A02B0A11DE8AF32708A8D7520A 994 $a 02 $b IWAInitiate Another SILO Locator Search