Islands in the Sky
Subtitle: Bold New Ideas for Colonizing Space
Contributors: Stanley Schmidt (Editor); Robert Zubrin (Editor)
Publisher: Wiley
Published: January 25, 1996
Language: eng
Number of pages: 266
ISBN-13: 9780471135616
First sentence: In spite of crashes, politics, budget battles, and opposition from today's version .of Jules Verne's Baltimore Gun Club, we're on the verge of having inexpensive, reliable, and responsive single-stage-to-orbit (SSTO) spaceships like the Delta Clipper DC-Y described in Dr. Arlan Andrews's science-fact article in the June 1993 issue.