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000725772 1001_ $$aSeedhouse, Erik,$$eauthor.
000725772 24510 $$aVirgin Galactic$$h[electronic resource] :$$bthe first ten years /$$cErik Seedhouse
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000725772 300__ $$a1 online resource :$$billustrations (chiefly color)
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000725772 4901_ $$aSpringer-Praxis books in space exploration
000725772 504__ $$aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
000725772 5050_ $$aSuborbital Flight/: A Primer -- X-Prize -- SpaceShipOne -- Scaled Composites -- Spaceport in New Mexico -- Medical and Training Requirements -- Meet the Passengers -- Missions -- Beyond Suborbital Space.
000725772 506__ $$aAccess limited to authorized users.
000725772 520__ $$aThirty years ago when Sir Richard Branson called up Boeing and asked if they had a spare 747, few would have predicted the brash entrepreneur would so radically transform the placid business of air travel. But today, Branson flies airlines on six continents, employs hundreds of jets and, in 2014, was predicting that his spaceship company ℓ́ℓ Virgin Galactic ℓ́ℓ would soon open the space frontier to commercial astronauts, payload specialists, scientists and space tourists. With more than 600 seats sold at $250,000 each, what started off as a dream to send people just for the excitement to look back and marvel at Earth, was on the cusp of finally being turned into a business. Then, on October 21, 2014, tragedy struck. SpaceShipTwo was on its most ambitious test flight to date. Seconds after firing its engine, Virgin Galacticℓ́ℓs spaceship was breaking through the sound barrier. In just the three seconds that it took for the vehicle to climb from Mach 0.94 to Mach 1.02, co-pilot Mike Alsbury made what many close to the event believe was a fatal mistake that led to his death and the disintegration of SpaceShipTwo. Miraculously, the pilot, Peter Siebold, survived the 16-km fall back to Earth. Soon after the event Branson vowed to continue his space tourism venture. Already a second SpaceShipTwo is being built, and ticket-holders eagerly await the day when Virgin Galactic offers quick, routine and affordable access to the edge of space. This book explains the hurdles Virgin Galactic has had and still has to overcome en route to developing suborbital space travel as a profitable economic entity, and describes the missions that will be flown on board SpaceShipTwo Mk II, including high-altitude science studies, astronomy, life sciences, and microgravity physics.
000725772 588__ $$aDescription based on online resource; title from PDF title page (viewed March 4, 2015).
000725772 61020 $$aVirgin Galactic (Firm)
000725772 650_0 $$aSpace tourism.
000725772 650_0 $$aSpace flight.
000725772 650_0 $$aSpace travelers.
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