Titlebook: Suborbital; Industry at the Edge Erik Seedhouse Book 2014 Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2014 After NASA Shuttle Program.Blu

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Contenders: Vehicles Waiting in the Wings,sights set on New Space. Several other companies are hard at work designing, building, and testing vehicles that also aim to provide rides to suborbital space and, in this chapter, we profile four of them: Blue Origin, Armadillo Aerospace, Masten Space Systems, and Copenhagen Suborbitals.

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Spaceports,ion between spaceports. Kick-starting the contest was Peter Mitchell, director of the New Mexico Office for Space Commercialization, who was present at Mojave Airport on the day that SpaceShipOne (SS1) made history. “Today doesn’t belong to New Mexico, the day belongs to the gentlemen up here … that

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Suborbital Science, around the interior of SpaceShipTwo (SS2). It’s a popular image that has permeated the public consciousness thanks to Virgin’s publicity campaign touting tickets to space. But while space tourism will surely turn out to be big business for Virgin Galactic, science, perhaps even more than tourism, c

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Payloads,ortment of vehicle designs. Take XCOR. Its Lynx spacecraft offers a variety of payload accommodations, one of which takes the place of the passenger’s seat and would be large enough to accommodate shuttle middeck lockers (Figure 8.1). As you can see in the graphic, there’s also a smaller area inside

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Describes how the new suborbital vehicles operate in the sub.The nascent commercial suborbital spaceflight industry will soon open the space frontier to commercial astronauts, payload specialists, scientists and of course, tourists. This book describes the tantalizing science opportunities to be off

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Book 2014d of course, tourists. This book describes the tantalizing science opportunities to be offered when suborbital trips become routine within the next 12 to 18 months. It describes the difference in training and qualification necessary to become either a spaceflight participant or a fully-fledged comme

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