Realizing Tomorrow
eBook - ePub

Realizing Tomorrow

The Path to Private Spaceflight

  1. 344 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Realizing Tomorrow

The Path to Private Spaceflight

About this book

U.S.A.F. Chief of Staff 2013 Professional Reading List Selection

Nearly forty years passed between the Apollo moon landings, the grandest accomplishment of a government-run space program, and the Ansari X PRIZE–winning flights of SpaceShipOne, the greatest achievement of a private space program. Now, as we hover on the threshold of commercial spaceflight, authors Chris Dubbs and Emeline Paat-Dahlstrom look back at how we got to this point.

Their book traces the lives of the individuals who shared the dream that private individuals and private enterprise belong in space. Realizing Tomorrow provides a behind-the-scenes look at the visionaries, the crackpots, the financial schemes, the legal wrangling, the turf battles, and—underpinning the entire drama—the overwhelming desire of ordinary people to visit outer space.
A compelling story of the pioneers of commercial spaceflight—and their efforts to open the final frontier to everyone—this book traces the path to private spaceflight even as it offers an instructive, entertaining, and cautionary note about its future.


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Table of contents

  1. Front Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright Page
  4. Contents
  5. List of Illustrations
  6. Foreword
  7. Acknowledgments
  8. Prologue
  9. 1. The Entire Population of the Earth in Orbit
  10. 2. The Birth of Private Rocket Companies
  11. 3. Private Citizens Get Their Chance in Space
  12. 4. Russia Commercializes Space
  13. 5. Citizen Explorers
  14. 6. The Quest for a Reusable Spaceship
  15. 7. The Ansari x prize Launches an Industry
  16. 8. Private Manned Spaceflight Makes History
  17. 9. Space Tourism Goes Mainstream
  18. 10. It Takes More Than a Spaceship to Build an Industry
  19. Sources
  20. Index