Space Tourism Adventures in Earth Orbit and Beyond /

• Main Author: Pelt, Michel van (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: New York, NY : Springer New York, 2005.
• Subjects: Popular works.; Astronomy.; Astrophysics.; Cosmology.; Popular Science.; Popular Science in Astronomy.; Astronomy, Astrophysics and Cosmology.

Many scientific papers and popular articles have been written on the topic of space tourism, describing everything from expected market sizes to the rules of 3-dimensional microgravity football. But what would it actually feel like to be a tourist in space, to be hurled into orbit on top of a contro...

Table of Contents:

• Before the Flight
• Selection for Spaceflight
• Getting Ready
• Astronauts at School
• Launch
• The Sky is not the Limit
• In Orbit
• Space Stations: Giant Cans and Wheels in the Sky
• The end of the Tour
• Returning from Space
• To the Moon, Mars and Beyond
• The Road Ahead.