书目名称 | Virgin Galactic | 副标题 | The First Ten Years | 编辑 | Erik Seedhouse | 视频video | http://file.papertrans.cn/984/983248/983248.mp4 | 概述 | Serves as a go-to book and reference guide for suborbital space tourists, space scientists and those who want to know how one maverick company pulled off one of the most remarkable achievements in man | 丛书名称 | Springer Praxis Books | 图书封面 |  | 描述 | .Thirty years ago when Sir Richard Branson called up Boeing and asked if they had a spare 747, few would have predicted the brash entrepreneur would so radically transform the placid business of air travel. But today, Branson flies airlines on six continents, employs hundreds of jets and, in 2014, was predicting that his spaceship company – Virgin Galactic – would soon open the space frontier to commercial astronauts, payload specialists, scientists and space tourists. With more than 600 seats sold at $250,000 each, what started off as a dream to send people just for the excitement to look back and marvel at Earth, was on the cusp of finally being turned into a business.. .Then, on October 21, 2014, tragedy struck. SpaceShipTwo was on its most ambitious test flight to date. Seconds after firing its engine, Virgin Galactic’s spaceship was breaking through the sound barrier. In just the three seconds that it took for the vehicle to climb from Mach 0.94 to Mach 1.02, co-pilot Mike Alsbury made what many close to the event believe was a fatal mistake that led to his death and the disintegration of SpaceShipTwo. Miraculously, the pilot, Peter Siebold, survived the 16-km fall back to Ear | 出版日期 | Book 2015 | 关键词 | Commercial Space Pilots; Manned Spaceflight‘s Future; Private Space Industry; Richard Branson; Space Tou | 版次 | 1 | doi | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-09262-1 | isbn_softcover | 978-3-319-09261-4 | isbn_ebook | 978-3-319-09262-1 | copyright | Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2015 |
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