Realizing Tomorrow: The Path to Private Spaceflight (Outward Odyssey: A People's History of Spaceflight) - Hardcover

Dubbs, Chris; Paat-Dahlstrom, Emeline

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0803216106 ISBN 13: 9780803216105

Publisher: University of Nebraska Press, 2011

Synopsis

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.

 

About this title

About the Author

Chris Dubbs is a military historian living in Edinboro, Pennsylvania, and has worked as a newspaper journalist, editor, and publisher. He is the author of numerous books, including American Journalists in the Great War: Rewriting the Rules of Reporting (Nebraska, 2017) and America’s U-Boats: Terror Trophies of World War I (Nebraska, 2014).

Edition details

• Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
• Publication date: 2011
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0803216106
• ISBN 13: 9780803216105
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 344