Making space happen
Subtitle: private space ventures and the visionaries behind them
By: Paula Berinstein.
Publisher: Plexus; Plexus Publishing
Published: 2002
Place of publication: Medford, N.J
Language: eng
Number of pages: 490
Subjects: United States. National Aeronautics and Space Administration; Space industrialization; Space tourism; Outer space -- Civilian use -- Economic aspects
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 439-441) and index.
Table of contents: title: Space tourism? : where'd they come up with an idea like that?; title: Tom Rogers : moving space tourism from page zero to page one; title: Harvey Wichman : you can't throw your socks on the floor in a spacecraft; title: Space and the body : are we robust enough to venture out?; title: Patrick Collins : would you pay $25,000 for a space vacation?; title: Peter Diamandis, Buzz Aldrin, and Ron Jones : how in tarnation are we going to get off the earth?; title: Kirby Ikin, Tom Olson, and Paul Contursi : the bottom line; title: funding and insurance; title: Robert Zubrin : the fast track to Mars; title: Wendell Mendell : mooning over the past; title: Greg Bennett : to the Moon; title: What's up with NASA?; title: John Lewis : raw materials from the sky; title: Jim Benson : space entrepreneur extraordinaire; title: Denise Norris : marketing space; title: Charles Miller : legislating space; title: Rick Tumlinson and James George : advocating space; title: Alonzo Fyfe : but is it the right thing to do?; title: Alan Wasser : who owns space?; title: Rene Schaad : space around the world; title: this one, that is; title: Whither humans in space?