| Description |
167 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm |
| Series |
Hot Science |
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Hot science.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Space for everyone? -- Suborbital adventures -- Into orbit -- Vacations in space -- Extraterrestrial industries -- The billionaire space race. |
| Summary |
"Even before Apollo 11 landed on the Moon, private companies were exploiting space via communication satellites - a sector that is seeing exponential growth in the internet age. In human spaceflight, too, commercialisation is making itself felt. Billionaire entrepreneurs Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos and Richard Branson have long trumpeted plans to make space travel a possibility for ordinary people and those ideas are inching ever closer to reality. At the same time, other companies plan to mine the Moon for helium-3, or asteroids for precious metals. Science writer Andrew May takes an entertaining, in-depth look at the triumphs and heroic failures of our quixotic quest to commercialise the final frontier"--Publisher's description. |
| Subject |
Space industrialization.
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Space tourism.
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Space industrialization. (OCoLC)fst01127744
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Space tourism. (OCoLC)fst01127939
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| Other Form: |
ebook version : 9781785787461 |
| ISBN |
9781785787454 paperback |
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1785787454 paperback |
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9781785787461 (ePub ebook) |
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