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Virgin Galactic = The First Ten Years /
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Virgin Galactic = The First Ten Years /
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正題名/作者:
Virgin Galactic/ by Erik Seedhouse.
其他題名:
The First Ten Years /
作者:
Seedhouse, Erik.
面頁冊數:
XIX, 203 p. 85 illus., 76 illus. in color.online resource. :
Contained By:
Springer Nature eBook
標題:
Aerospace engineering. -
電子資源:
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-09262-1
ISBN:
9783319092621
Virgin Galactic = The First Ten Years /
Seedhouse, Erik.
Virgin Galactic
The First Ten Years /[electronic resource] :by Erik Seedhouse. - 1st ed. 2015. - XIX, 203 p. 85 illus., 76 illus. in color.online resource. - Space Exploration. - Space Exploration.
Suborbital Flight/: A Primer -- X-Prize -- SpaceShipOne -- Scaled Composites -- Spaceport in New Mexico -- Medical and Training Requirements -- Meet the Passengers -- Missions -- Beyond Suborbital Space.
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 Earth. Soon after the event Branson vowed to continue his space tourism venture. Already a second SpaceShipTwo is being built, and ticket-holders eagerly await the day when Virgin Galactic offers quick, routine and affordable access to the edge of space. This book explains the hurdles Virgin Galactic has had and still has to overcome en route to developing suborbital space travel as a profitable economic entity, and describes the missions that will be flown on board SpaceShipTwo Mk II, including high-altitude science studies, astronomy, life sciences, and microgravity physics.
ISBN: 9783319092621
Standard No.: 10.1007/978-3-319-09262-1doiSubjects--Topical Terms:
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LC Class. No.: TL787-4050.22
Dewey Class. No.: 629.1
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