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100	1		_aVan Pelt, Michel.
245	1	0	_aSpace tourism _h[Book :] _badventures in Earth's orbit and beyond / _cMichal Van Pelt.
260			_aNew York : _bSpringer, _c2005.
300			_a217 p. : _bill. (some col.) ; _c23 cm.
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 207-212) and index.
505	0	0	_tPreface -- _tIntroduction -- _gch. 1. _tBefore the flight -- _gThe _texperience begins -- _gch. 2. _tSelection for spaceflight -- _tWhen can you go? -- _tSafety first -- _tRadiation -- _tBack in the atmosphere -- _tLanding -- _gch.3. _tGetting ready -- _tSafety -- _tSpaceflight theory -- _tGeography -- _tMedical issues -- _gThe _tthird day -- _tEVA training -- _tCentrifuge and water landing survival -- _gch. 4. _tAstronauts at school -- _tTraining program -- _tPreparing the spacecraft -- _gch. 5. _tLaunch -- _gch. 6. The _tsky is not the limit -- _tMaking it affordable -- _gThe _tdevelopment of spaceplanes -- _tReusability -- _tFinancing the future -- _tNuclear rockets, laser craft and space elevators -- _gch. 7. _tIn orbit -- _tEarth orbit -- _tActivities in microgravity -- _gThe _t"Freedom Flyer" -- _tGoing outside -- _gch. 8. _tSpace stations : giant cans and wheels in the sky -- _tHotels in space? -- _tChecking in at a 2040+ space hotel -- _tMicrogravity sports and recreation -- _tSpace loving -- _tSpace food -- _tSweet dreams -- _tPets in space -- _gch. 9. The _tend of the tour -- _gch. 10. _tReturning from space -- _tRough landings -- _tSpacediving -- _tPutting your feet back on the ground -- _tSouvenirs -- _gch. 11. _tTo the moon, Mars and beyond -- _tFly me to the moon -- _tLunar activities -- _tReaching the moonbase -- _tMars vacation -- _tSpace colonies -- _tMore distant worlds -- _tMercury -- _tVenus -- _gThe _tgiant planets and Pluto -- _tAsteroids and comets -- _gThe _tconstraints of distance -- _tAt the speed of light -- _gch. 12. The _troad ahead -- _tCost and safety -- _tBe a space tourist now -- _tBibliography -- _tIndex.
520			_a"Space tourism is just science fiction ... or is it?" The face of space travel is changing rapidly. A growing number of well-funded and technologically savvy organizations are privately developing and testing new kinds of space vehicles, and even competing against one another in highly publicized space-flight contests. Over the last few years, tow private citizens, both multi-millionaires, have taken separate trips into space that they paid for with their own money. And even commercial air carriers have begun to consider, and in at least one case invest in, the private development of spacecraft what will take travelers on mind-boggling flights to the very edge of space. Suddenly it seems that frequent if not routine space travel for ordinary citizens - long depicted as fantasy in movies and science fiction stories - may become a reality. To be sure, the economic, political, and technological hurdles to widespread participation in space flight are daunting. Investors and business managers will have to work hard to bring down the price of entry to a very small fraction of the $20 million each paid by pioneering space tourists like Dennis Ito and Mark Shuttleworth. Aside from the issues of passenger safety and comfort, even relatively modest flights to the edge of space will require a lot more investigation and testing - of reusable spacecraft, of efficient and safe propulsion and guidance systems, and of training and conditioning regimens for potential space travelers. Still, as van Pelt demonstrates, the development of a viable space tourism industry is already happening. This book includes a brief history of human space flight, highlighting the challenges and opportunities faced by astronauts and cosmonauts over the last forty years. From the front lines of industry and government research centers, it reports in technical detail on experiments in space flight that are currently underway. The book also discusses the attitudes (not always positive) of governments and key non-governmental organizations toward private space travel. And van Pelt creates imaginative scenarios to suggest what it will feel like - to prepare for a flight, to go through launch, to experience microgravity, and to look back up into the blackness of space and down at the curvature of Earth from a place that until now very few humans have ever visited. - Dust jacket.
521			_aAll Ages.
650		0	_aSpace tourism _vPopular works.
650		0	_aAstronautics _vPopular works.
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