Non-Rocket Space Launch and Flight
Publisher: Elsevier Science
Published: June 14, 2006
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 488
ISBN-13: 9780080447315
Subjects: Astronautics; Technology & Industrial Arts; Physics; Technology; Science/Mathematics; Aeronautics & Astronautics; Engineering - Mechanical; Technology / Aeronautics & Astronautics; Astrophysics & Space Science
First sentence: The concept of the space elevator first appeared in 1895 when a Russian scientist, Konstantin Tsiolkovsky, considered a tower that reached a geosynchronous orbit.