"Published in association with Praxis Publishing." Includes bibliographical references (pages 235-247) and index.
Contents:
Intruduction -- Giant launchers -- Reusable launchers -- Space stations and orbital colonies -- Super satellites -- Giant probes -- Mars expeditions -- To the stars.
Summary:
"Dream Missions takes the reader on a journey through the history of extremely large, ambitious, and complex space missions that never came to fruition. Each project described in this book says something about the visions and expectations of their time, and their demise was often linked to important changes in the cultural, political and social state of the world. Various ambitious mission and spacecraft concepts are presented, each covering: overview of its history and design; the philosophy behind the concept; why it was never developed and flown; and intriguingly is there still a chance the mission will actually be carried out, with technology progressing, requirements and constraints changing, and alternataive sources of funding becoming available?"--Back cover.
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