SpaceX Making Commercial Spaceflight a Reality /

• Main Author: Seedhouse, Erik (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: New York, NY : Springer New York : Imprint: Praxis, 2013.
• Series: Other Springer-Praxis books of related interest by Erik Seedhoose
• Subjects: Engineering.; Entrepreneurship.; Globalization.; Markets.; Space sciences.; Popular works.; Aerospace engineering.; Astronautics.; Aerospace Technology and Astronautics.; Popular Science, general.; Extraterrestrial Physics, Space Sciences.; Emerging Markets/Globalization.

2012 - the year when the first ever privately-developed spacecraft visited the International Space Station. This is the story of how one company is transforming commercial space flight. It describes the extraordinary feats of engineering and human achievement that have resulted in the world's f...

Table of Contents:

• Elon Musk
• Space Exers
• The Engines – Merlin
• The Rockets: from the Falcon 1 to the Falcon 9
• The Rockets: from the Falcon 9 to the Falcon Heavy
• The Spacecraft – Dragon
• Contracts and Flight Operations
• I’ll Put a Man on Mars in 10 Years
• Red Dragon.