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SpaceShipOne

Author : Dan Linehan
Publisher : Quarto Publishing Group USA
ISBN 13 : 161673230X
Total Pages : 161 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (167 download)

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Download or read book SpaceShipOne written by Dan Linehan and published by Quarto Publishing Group USA. This book was released on 2011-06-13 with total page 161 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “One of the most remarkable accomplishments in our conquest of gravity.” — Sir Arthur C. Clarke In April, 2003, a company called Scaled Composites introduced SpaceShipOne to the world. SpaceShipOne: An Illustrated History chronicles the development of the world’s first commercial manned space program—aprogram that includes an airborne launcher (the White Knight), a space ship (SpaceShipOne), rocket propulsion, avionics, simulator, and full ground support. With ample illustrations, photographs, and behind-the-scenes information, SpaceShipOne provides a full picture of this classified project. The story of SpaceShipOne combines the adventurous spirit of Charles Lindbergh, the entrepreneurial drive of Howard Hughes, and the urgency of the space race at the height of the Cold War.

SpaceShipOne

Author : Tom Sibila
Publisher : Capstone
ISBN 13 : 9780736857345
Total Pages : 58 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (573 download)

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Download or read book SpaceShipOne written by Tom Sibila and published by Capstone. This book was released on 2005-07 with total page 58 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: - Full-color historical photographs - Table of contents, glossary, bibliography, places to write and visit, index - Reinforced library binding - 64 pages, size: 5 1/4" x 8" - Maps - Illustrations - Time lines - Contextual definitions of unfamiliar terms - www.FactHound.com Internet sites

The Magic and Menace of SpaceShipOne

Author : Brian Binnie
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 422 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (81 download)

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Download or read book The Magic and Menace of SpaceShipOne written by Brian Binnie and published by . This book was released on 2021-03-21 with total page 422 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 2004, Burt Rutan's Scaled Composites and a team of engineers, pilots and visionaries added a milestone to the history of manned spaceflight: the first wholly private craft to reach space. Their creation, SpaceShipOne , lofted to launch altitude by its mother ship WhiteKnightOne, rocketed into space not once, but twice within five days to claim the $10 million Ansari XPRIZE and create the first two private astronauts in history.Here, in the authentic words of the second of those pilots, whose flight clinched the prize, is the story of SpaceShipOne -- from its earliest engineering to the final changes that brought space within its reach. Hundreds of photos, diagrams, charts and reports, many never before seen, chart the course of the project's innovative technology. More than just a technical history, the people, personality and conflicts on the hard road to space come to life from the perspective of a key player.And the unique personal history of Brian Binnie and the roads that led him to the pilot's seat of that thrilling, record-breaking flight and the second pair of Commercial Astronaut wings ever issued fill out the grand story. From a kid born in the Scottish Highlands to US Naval Aviator to test pilot to astronaut... this tale takes you through that epic adventure as a leadup to that of SpaceShipOne itself.There are only five manned spacecraft hanging in the National Air and Space Museum's "Milestones of Flight" gallery. SpaceShipOne is among them. This book, in magnificent first-person detail, tells why.

Virgin Galactic

Author : Erik Seedhouse
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319092626
Total Pages : 203 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (19 download)

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Download or read book Virgin Galactic written by Erik Seedhouse and published by Springer. This book was released on 2015-02-23 with total page 203 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thirty years ago when Sir Richard Branson called up Boeing and asked if they had a spare 747, few would have predicted the brash entrepreneur would so radically transform the placid business of air travel. But today, Branson flies airlines on six continents, employs hundreds of jets and, in 2014, was predicting that his spaceship company – Virgin Galactic – would soon open the space frontier to commercial astronauts, payload specialists, scientists and space tourists. With more than 600 seats sold at $250,000 each, what started off as a dream to send people just for the excitement to look back and marvel at Earth, was on the cusp of finally being turned into a business. Then, on October 21, 2014, tragedy struck. SpaceShipTwo was on its most ambitious test flight to date. Seconds after firing its engine, Virgin Galactic’s spaceship was breaking through the sound barrier. In just the three seconds that it took for the vehicle to climb from Mach 0.94 to Mach 1.02, co-pilot Mike Alsbury made what many close to the event believe was a fatal mistake that led to his death and the disintegration of SpaceShipTwo. Miraculously, the pilot, Peter Siebold, survived the 16-km fall back to Earth. Soon after the event Branson vowed to continue his space tourism venture in spite of this. Already a second SpaceShipTwo is being built, and ticket-holders eagerly await the day when Virgin Galactic offers quick, routine and affordable access to the edge of space. This book explains the hurdles Virgin Galactic had and still has to overcome en route to developing suborbital space travel as a profitable economic entity, and describes the missions that will be flown on board SpaceShipTwo Mk II, including high-altitude science studies, astronomy, life sciences, and microgravity physics.

How to Make a Spaceship

Author : Julian Guthrie
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0698405854
Total Pages : 448 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (984 download)

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Download or read book How to Make a Spaceship written by Julian Guthrie and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2016-09-20 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A New York Times bestseller! The historic race that reawakened the promise of manned spaceflight A Finalist for the PEN/E. O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award Alone in a Spartan black cockpit, test pilot Mike Melvill rocketed toward space. He had eighty seconds to exceed the speed of sound and begin the climb to a target no civilian pilot had ever reached. He might not make it back alive. If he did, he would make history as the world’s first commercial astronaut. The spectacle defied reason, the result of a competition dreamed up by entrepreneur Peter Diamandis, whose vision for a new race to space required small teams to do what only the world’s largest governments had done before. Peter Diamandis was the son of hardworking immigrants who wanted their science prodigy to make the family proud and become a doctor. But from the age of eight, when he watched Apollo 11 land on the Moon, his singular goal was to get to space. When he realized NASA was winding down manned space flight, Diamandis set out on one of the great entrepreneurial adventure stories of our time. If the government wouldn’t send him to space, he would create a private space flight industry himself. In the 1990s, this idea was the stuff of science fiction. Undaunted, Diamandis found inspiration in an unlikely place: the golden age of aviation. He discovered that Charles Lindbergh made his transatlantic flight to win a $25,000 prize. The flight made Lindbergh the most famous man on earth and galvanized the airline industry. Why, Diamandis thought, couldn’t the same be done for space flight? The story of the bullet-shaped SpaceShipOne, and the other teams in the hunt, is an extraordinary tale of making the impossible possible. It is driven by outsized characters—Burt Rutan, Richard Branson, John Carmack, Paul Allen—and obsessive pursuits. In the end, as Diamandis dreamed, the result wasn’t just a victory for one team; it was the foundation for a new industry and a new age.

Burt Rutan's Race to Space

Author : Dan Linehan
Publisher : Zenith Press
ISBN 13 : 1610602609
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (16 download)

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Download or read book Burt Rutan's Race to Space written by Dan Linehan and published by Zenith Press. This book was released on 2011-07-17 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Years ago, Burt Rutan told a reporter for Popular Mechanics, “If we make a courageous decision like the goal and program we kicked off for Apollo in 1961, we will see our children or grandchildren in outposts on other planets.” Legendary science-fiction writer Arthur C. Clark would later recall Rutan’s quote in a piece he wrote about SpaceShipOne and comment, “Fortunately, we need not rely solely on governments for expanding humanity’s presence beyond the Earth.” Burt Rutan’s Race to Space showcases Rutan’s herculean efforts to do just that. Smithsonian’s Air and Space Museum displays his most celebrated achievements, including SpaceShipOne, which won the coveted $10 million Ansari X Prize for private spaceflight; Voyager, which hangs with SpaceShipOne in the Milestones of Flight gallery; the Virgin Atlantic GlobalFlyer; and the VariEze. His many aerospace innovations preceding his most recently conceived designs, SpaceShipTwo and WhiteKnightTwo, chronicle a progressive, step-by-step attempt to break barriers with engineering know-how and a wondrous imagination, all the while remaining on the forefront of the burgeoning private spaceflight industry. Rutan’s X Prize triumph and subsequent spacecraft designs are not a beginning, nor an end, but are steps in Burt Rutan’s continuing adventure to expand humanity’s presence beyond the Earth and into space.

Popular Science

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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 118 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book Popular Science written by and published by . This book was released on 2003-07 with total page 118 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Popular Science gives our readers the information and tools to improve their technology and their world. The core belief that Popular Science and our readers share: The future is going to be better, and science and technology are the driving forces that will help make it better.

Space Tourism

Author : Peter McMahon
Publisher : Kids Can Press Ltd
ISBN 13 : 1554533686
Total Pages : 42 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (545 download)

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Download or read book Space Tourism written by Peter McMahon and published by Kids Can Press Ltd. This book was released on 2011-08 with total page 42 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Inside: 5 'build it yourself' experiments"--Cover.

Flying Magazine

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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 136 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book Flying Magazine written by and published by . This book was released on 2005-05 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Commercial Astronauts

Author : Erik Seedhouse
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3031556046
Total Pages : 241 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (315 download)

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Download or read book Commercial Astronauts written by Erik Seedhouse and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The 25 Most Influential Aircraft of All Time

Author : Walter Boyne
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1493026313
Total Pages : 408 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (93 download)

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Download or read book The 25 Most Influential Aircraft of All Time written by Walter Boyne and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2018-03-01 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 25 Most Influential Aircraft of All Time conveys the fascinating progression of flying technology from flimsy wood-and-fabric biplanes to thunderous supersonic wonders. Aviation’s most historically relevant and arguably most influential aircraft – planes like the elliptical-winged Spitfire, the blisteringly-fast X-15, and the ubiquitous Learjet – are dramatically showcased in individual chapters. Factors like performance, price, operational efficiency, and perceptions in popular culture are examined. People are just as important as hardware in the discussion of the world’s greatest aircraft. The larger-than-life characters who designed and built these aeronautical marvels – men like the reclusive Howard Hughes and the demanding Clarence “Kelly” Johnson – are an indispensable part of the story. So, too, are the fearless pilots like Charles Lindbergh and Chuck Yeager who gave life to the shining examples of a new and dynamic industry. The authors have flown or flown in many of the featured aircraft and they knew many of the luminous personalities involved, enabling them to share unique perspectives. The preface is written by William Lloyd Stearman, a former staff member of the National Security Council and the son of famed industry engineer Lloyd Stearman. The introduction is written by Norman R. Augustine, the retired Chairman and CEO of Lockheed Martin Corporation. The foreword is written by Burt Rutan, the renowned aircraft designer and founder of Scaled Composites. Each aircraft is magnificently illustrated in color, mostly with paintings by leading aviation artists.

Best of the National Air and Space Museum

Author : F. Robert van der Linden
Publisher : Smithsonian Institution
ISBN 13 : 1588345815
Total Pages : 225 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (883 download)

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Download or read book Best of the National Air and Space Museum written by F. Robert van der Linden and published by Smithsonian Institution. This book was released on 2016-06-28 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Experience the thrill of flying some of the world's most important airplanes and spacecraft. Best of the National Air and Space Museum provides unprecedented access to the most popular museum in the world. The Smithsonian's National Air and Space Museum hosts an average of seven million visits every year. The Udvar-Hazy Center—three football fields long and ten stories high—receives more than one million visits annually. Best of the National Air and Space Museum features the best of both museums, from the Challenger space shuttle and the Wright flyer to the Spirit of St. Louis and the stealth bomber. Robert Van der Linden, curator of aeronautics, has selected the most important, popular, and just plain impressive aircraft and spacecraft from the collections of both museums to be showcased in this beautiful book. Each page spread includes intriguing facts of the item's design, use, mission, specifications, and dimensions. A must-have for space and aviation buffs.

Popular Science

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 118 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Popular Mechanics

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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 150 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book Popular Mechanics written by and published by . This book was released on 2004-12 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Popular Mechanics inspires, instructs and influences readers to help them master the modern world. Whether it’s practical DIY home-improvement tips, gadgets and digital technology, information on the newest cars or the latest breakthroughs in science -- PM is the ultimate guide to our high-tech lifestyle.

Engineers

Author : DK
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1465406824
Total Pages : 362 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (654 download)

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Download or read book Engineers written by DK and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2012-04-16 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Engineers have always had a huge influence on the way we live and how our world looks. They create lasting solutions to the biggest challenges, and construct iconic and incredible buildings that have literally stood the test of time. Engineers tells their story, from the men who built the Great Pyramid in Egypt to the pioneers of space travel. Often many different minds worked together or built on the work of previous generations to achieve a working version of a great idea: Engineers explores this progression of ideas, from initial concept to prototype and finished design. The great achievements of engineers go hand in hand with the world's greatest structures, such as aqueducts, monuments, bridges, and dams. These works are shown in detail and highlighted with beautiful illustrations, photographs, and technical drawings.

Popular Science

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 128 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book Popular Science written by and published by . This book was released on 2004-03 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Popular Science gives our readers the information and tools to improve their technology and their world. The core belief that Popular Science and our readers share: The future is going to be better, and science and technology are the driving forces that will help make it better.

Tourism Business Frontiers

Author : Dimitrios Buhalis
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136353631
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (363 download)

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Download or read book Tourism Business Frontiers written by Dimitrios Buhalis and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2006-08-11 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As the global tourism industry continues to expand and to become more complex, it is vital that those in the industry are equipped with a thorough knowledge of all topics involved. New Tourism Consumers Products and Industry: Present and Future Issues provides this comprehensive coverage and more. Written by a team of globally renowned thinkers and researchers, it not only provides a brief historical overview of tourism, but delves deeper, to discuss emerging trends, consumer types and looks at the way the industry itself is changing and developing. It provides the manager of tomorrow with the ability to look beyond normal planning horizons and identify potential opportunities from these changes. New Tourism Consumers Products and Industry: Present and Future Issues is part of a two part set with its companion text, Tourism Dynamics, Challenges and Tools: Present and Future Issues which takes the reader on a logical progression to look at issues relating to the external environment in which the tourism industry functions. Both texts thereby provide the reader with a complete set of tools and knowledge recognise the key areas of growth and change, and the ability to use the new tools and technologies available to develop them and maximise business potential.