Spaceflight revolution

ผู้แต่ง:David Ashford

บทสรุป:A revolution in spaceflight is likely soon with the prospect of everyday access to orbit within fifteen years. Costly launch vehicles based on ballistic missiles will be replaced by spaceplanes, using technology that exists today. In five years time, a prototype could be built, and with a further ten years of detailed development, the design could approach airliner maturity, reducing the cost of sending people into space. The present monopoly of large government space agencies is becoming unsupportable, and the market that understands the very real opportunities for space travel will be reaching critical mass in the near future. Space tourism will one day become the single largest business in space