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Nearly forty years passed between the Apollo moon landings the grandest accomplishment of a government-run space program and the Ansari X PRIZEa"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 anda"underpinning the entire dramaa"the overwhelming desire of ordinary people to visit outer space.A compelling story of the pioneers of commercial spaceflighta"and their efforts to open the final frontier to everyonea"this book traces the path to private spaceflight even as it offers an instructive entertaining and cautionary note about its future.

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Book category Books in English Technology, engineering, agriculture Transport technology & trades Aerospace & aviation technology

• Full title: Realizing Tomorrow
• Subtitle: The Path to Private Spaceflight
• Author: Chris Dubbs, Emeline Paat-Dahlstrom
• Language: English
• Binding: Hardback
• Number of pages: 344
• EAN: 9780803216105
• ISBN: 0803216106
• ID: 04922454
• Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
• Weight: 650 g
• Dimensions: 237 × 159 × 30 mm
• Date of publishing: 01. June 2011

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