How to Build Your Own Spaceship: The Science of Mass Space Travel

Piers Bizony

ISBN 10: 1846271258 / ISBN 13: 9781846271250

Published by Portobello Books Ltd, 2008

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: How to Build Your Own Spaceship: The Science of Mass Space Travel
• Publisher: Portobello Books Ltd
• Publication Date: 2008
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1846271258
• ISBN 13: 9781846271250
• Binding: hardcover
• Condition: Very Good

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Synopsis

Private space flight has long been a science fiction dream. Today it is on the verge of realization. Major companies such as Virgin and Amazon are investing in a new generation of lightweight, efficient spacecraft. Start-up companies specializing in space tourism and spaceport development are burgeoning. NASA and the American aviation authorities are altering decades-old legislation to make private space entrepreneurship possible. How To Build Your Own Spaceship tells you everything you need to join the new space race - either by signing up as a passenger or becoming an investor in this fantastic new arena, where the sky is no longer the limit.

Review

Even casual popular science readers will be hard pressed not to find some fascination within these pages... A compulsive read. -- Big Issue

He writes with the easy tone you'd want to hear from your space pilot.
-- The Times

If a space revolution really is on the way, this book is an engaging way of getting up-to-speed.
-- BBC Focus

[A] fascinating eulogy to space travel. -- Guardian