A Vision of Future Space Transportation

A Vision of Future Space Transportation
Author: Tim McElyea
Publisher:
Total Pages: 202
Release: 2003
Genre: Nature
ISBN: 9781896522937

The glorious Space Age has come and gone. So what's next now? This book is a guide of future space transportation concepts. From Earth-to-Orbit to in-space transportation, you will sample what is being considered and get an easy-to -understand explanation of what spacecraft will do and how it will work.

Space Transportation

Space Transportation
Author: Walter Edward Hammond
Publisher: AIAA
Total Pages: 740
Release: 1999
Genre: Astronautics
ISBN: 9781600861109

Annotation This practical book gives young professionals all the information they need to know to get started in the space business. It takes you step-by-step through processes for systems engineering and acquisition, design and development, cost analysis, and program planning and analysis. You'll find the systems engineering and design process that applies to all space transportation systems, then the overall system architecture considerations that also apply to all space transportation systems. There is also detailed coverage of space launch vehicles by class, including the current space shuttle, other manned reusable systems, expendable systems, and future systems. A companion CD-ROM contains the Operations Simulation and Analysis Modeling System software.

Access to Space

Access to Space
Author: United States. Congress. Office of Technology Assessment
Publisher:
Total Pages: 112
Release: 1990
Genre: Astronautics and state
ISBN:

Space, Incorporated

Space, Incorporated
Author: Tamra B. Orr
Publisher: Future Space
Total Pages: 33
Release: 2019
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 1543572669

Space isn't just the final frontier-it's big business! From exploration to space vacations, learn how private businesses are transforming the future of space travel and exploration.

Mission to Mars

Mission to Mars
Author: Buzz Aldrin
Publisher: Disney Electronic Content
Total Pages: 248
Release: 2013-05-07
Genre: Science
ISBN: 1426210183

Can astronauts reach Mars by 2035? Absolutely, says Buzz Aldrin, one of the first men to walk on the moon. Celebrated astronaut, brilliant engineer, bestselling author, Aldrin believes it is not only possibly but vital to America’s future to keep pushing the space frontier outward for the sake of exploration, science, development, commerce, and security. What we need, he argues, is a commitment by the U.S. President as rousing as JFK’s promise to reach the moon by the end of the 1960s—an audacious, inspiring goal-and a unified vision for space exploration. In Mission to Mars, Aldrin plots that trajectory, stressing that American-led space exploration is essential to the economic and technological vitality of the nation and the world. Do you dare to dream big? Then join Aldrin in his thought provoking and inspiring Mission to Mars.

The Story of the Space Shuttle

The Story of the Space Shuttle
Author: David M. Harland
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 476
Release: 2004-07-05
Genre: Science
ISBN: 9781852337933

In spite of the Challenger and Columbia disasters, the US Space Shuttle, which entered service in 1981, remains the most successful spacecraft ever developed. Conceived and designed as a reusable spacecraft to provide cheap access to low Earth orbit, and to supersede expendable launch vehicles, serving as the National Space Transportation System, it now coexists with a new range of commercial rockets. David Harland’s definitive work on the Space Shuttle explains the scientific contribution the Space Shuttle has made to the international space programme, detailing missions to Mir, Hubble and more recently its role in the assembly of the International Space Station. This substantial revision to existing chapters and extension of ‘The Space Shuttle’, following the loss of Columbia, will include a comprehensive account of the run-up to resumption of operations and conclude with a chapter beyond the Shuttle, looking at possible future concepts for a partly or totally reusable space vehicle which are being considered to replace the Shuttle.