题名:
Rocket billionaires : Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, and the new space race
个人著者:
PUBDATE:
2018
GVPL_PUBLICATION_INFO:
Boston : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2018.
©2018
物理描述:
xviii, 281 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 24 cm
ISBN:
9781328662231
摘要:
Follows the major players and corporations who are all competing in the new "space race" to colonize the Moon, send civilians into space, or send humans to Mars.
内容:
Introduction -- Space race -- The rocket-industrial complex -- The rocket monopoly -- The Internet guy -- Friday afternoon space club -- The tyranny of the rocket -- Never a straight answer -- A method of reaching extreme altitudes -- Test as we fly -- Change versus more of the same -- Capture the flag -- Space race 2.0 -- Reduce, reuse, recycle -- Pushing the envelope -- Rocket billionaires -- Beyond earth orbit -- Epilogue: a spacefaring civilization.
LANGUAGE:
英文
