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Spaceplanes: From Airport to SpaceportBy Matthew A. Bentley
Publisher: Springer 2008 | 238 Pages | ISBN: 0387765093 | PDF | 5 MB
Spaceplanes From Airport to Spaceport presents a vision of the near futurein which space vehicles can take off from an international airport, refuel inspace, and fly regularly between the Earth and the Moon. The book is built onthe solid engineering foundation prepared by David Ashford in his bookSpaceflight Revolution, but develops the argument. This is a coherent, lucid,and optimistic picture of the future – aimed directly at the reader as a futurespace passenger – which explains why the Space Tourist market could easilybecome the single most important factor in the mid-term future development ofspace transportation. In a few years it will be possible to board a spaceplaneand fly into Earth orbit, and perhaps visit a space station. Later developmentcould include refuelling in orbit to take a tour of cislunar space. As thelatest news has shown, the successful flight of SpaceShipOne and the imminentinauguration of Virgin Galactic’s sub-orbital rides from the New Mexico deserthave already begun this process. This book explains the technical details ofprecisely how all this can be accomplished within the next few decades.
About the Author
Matthew Bentley is a full-time private airplane pilot in America. He hasstudied physics, astronomy, math, engineering, German and Russian at universitylevel, and also speaks Swedish. He has had a lifelong enthusiasm forAstronautics.
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