They All Laughed at Christopher Columbus
Subtitle: An Incurable Dreamer Builds the First Civilian Spaceship
Publisher: Bantam
Published: October 1, 2002
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 240
ISBN-13: 9780553108866
Subjects: Scientists - General; Rocketry; Biography / Autobiography; Biography & Autobiography; United States; Biography/Autobiography; Space tourism; Rotary Rocket (Redwood Shores,; Biography; Biography & Autobiography / Science & Technology; (Gary Charles); Hudson, Gary
First sentence: People have always dreamed of leaving the planet-on the backs of eagles, tied to flocks of trained geese, by magnetic attraction, in a chariot drawn by four red horses in search of Orlando's lost mind, and with the morning dew-and when, in 1969, American astronauts finally reached the moon in a Saturn V rocket, the nature of that dreaming changed for good.
Description: Profiles the career of Gary Hudson and his creation of Rotary Rocket, a company formed to design and construct the Rotan, a revolutionary, single-stage-to-orbit, fully reusable rocket designed to send humans into space.