... from expendable to reusable launchers will come to be seen as being as profound as the change from balloons to aeroplanes in the history of air transport. The perception of low-cost and safe access to space using existing technology will change...
... to the stars. They mark an achievement unparalleled in human history and they embrace, and poignantly echo, our continued efforts to... the private sector unique opportunities and challenges to make history. And just as the Apollo project was built on...
... these competing depictions to “unpack the meaning of the spaceflight enterprise”. It is replete with the trappings of an academic history (50-plus pages of chapter notes and index) and, at the same time, extremely readable – no mean feat in itself...
..., asteroid mining and Elon Musk! – offered an alternative model. In contrast, according to its blurb, this economics-based history of the Space Age “clearly shows that the current prominence of private-sector American spaceflight is the re-emergence...
... and 1950s. To those who have studied a little space history, Ley is probably best known for his oft-reprinted 1949 book...-white photos) and was written more for the space history community than the general reader. When one historian reviewer describes...
... life on Earth and nearly extinguished it. Early in Earth’s history it is believed our planet was struck by an object between...Earth in 1770 was the closest cometary near-miss in recorded history - it closest point of approach was 0.0146 AU from ...