Space Tourism: Adventures in Earth Orbit and Beyond

by Michel van Pelt

Book Overview

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 controlled explosion, to float around in a spacecraft, and to be able to look down on your hometown from above the atmosphere?

Space tourism is not...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0387402136
• ISBN13: 9780387402130
• Release Date: March 2005
• Publisher: Copernicus Books
• Length: 217 Pages
• Weight: 1.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.4" x 9.5"