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Realizing tomorrow : the path to private spaceflight / Chris Dubbs and Emeline Paat-Dahlstrom ; Foreword by Charles D. Walker.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Dubbs, Chris.
- Series:
- Outward odyssey
- Outward odyssey, a people's history of spaceflight
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Space flights.
- Space tourism.
- Outer space--Civilian use.
- Outer space.
- Space industrialization.
- Physical Description:
- xii, 299 pages, 26 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, [2011]
- Contents:
- The entire population of the earth in orbit
- The birth of private rocket companies
- Private citizens get their chance in space
- Russia commercializes space
- Citizen explorers
- The quest for a reusable spaceship
- The ansari x prize launches an industry
- Private manned spaceflight makes history
- Space tourism goes mainstream
- It takes more than a spaceship to build an industry.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780803216105
- 0803216106
- OCLC:
- 679936537
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