SpaceX: Making Commercial Spaceflight a Reality (Springer Praxis Books)

SpaceX: Making Commercial Spaceflight a Reality (Springer Praxis Books)

Erik Seedhouse

Language: English

Pages: 206

ISBN: 1461455138

Format: PDF / Kindle (mobi) / ePub


This book describes the exceptional engineering and human achievement that have placed SpaceX at the forefront of the launch industry, showing how simplicity, low cost and reliability help make it the most likely candidate for transporting humans to Mars.

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horizontal-landing (VTHL) lifting-body spaceplane that will carry up to seven crew to and from LEO. Designed to launch vertically on a man-rated Atlas V 402 rocket (Fignre 7.7) and land horizontally on conventional runways, the primary mission of the reusable composite Dream Chaser is to provide NASA with a safe and reliable commercially operated transportation service for crew and cargo to and from the ISS. Future missions may include delivering crew and cargo to other orbiting facilities such

horizontal-landing (VTHL) lifting-body spaceplane that will carry up to seven crew to and from LEO. Designed to launch vertically on a man-rated Atlas V 402 rocket (Fignre 7.7) and land horizontally on conventional runways, the primary mission of the reusable composite Dream Chaser is to provide NASA with a safe and reliable commercially operated transportation service for crew and cargo to and from the ISS. Future missions may include delivering crew and cargo to other orbiting facilities such

optimistic about its chances of winning CCiCap funding - optimism that no doubt prompted ATK's Kent Rominger to outline an aggressive schedule for Liberty that called for flight tests in 2014 and crew flights starting in 2015. The schedule, announced at the 2012 NewSpace conference, depended on winning a full CCiCap award so, when the CCiCap funding was announced, ATK had to recalibrate. Some space observers argued that uuIess ATK could find customers for their rocket, it would be difficult for

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