How To Build Your Own Spaceship
How To Build Your Own Spaceship
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How To Build Your Own Spaceship by Piers Bizony
Private space flight has long been a science-fiction dream. Today it is on the verge of realization. Major companies such as Virgin and Amazon are investing in a new generation of lightweight, efficient spacecraft. Start-up companies specializing in space tourism and spaceport development are burgeoning. NASA and the American aviation authorities are altering decades-old legislation to make private space entrepreneurship possible. How To Build Your Own Spaceship tells you everything you need to know to join the new space race - either by signing up as a passenger or becoming an investor in this fantastic new arena, where the sky is no longer the limit.
Bizony's book comes at a thrilling moment and he is a terrifically eager guide through rocket science and future hopes of visiting Mars * Guardian *
The perfect guide to equip you with all the info you need * TNT magazine *
He writes with the easy tone you'd want to hear from your space pilot.. Strap yourselves down, and boldly go on a joyride out of this world -- Iain Finlayson * The Times *
There is plenty of curious information here -- Andrew Crumey * Scotland on Sunday *
Even casual popular-science readers will be hard pressed not to find some fascination within these 240 pages ... A compulsive read -- Alex Donohue * Big Issue *
If a space revolution really is on the way, this book is an engaging way of getting up to speed -- Sean Blair * BBC Focus *
This popular-science book is an overview of mankind's 21st-century foray into space travel, equipping the reader with all the information he or she will need to join the space race themselves ... an interesting read -- Clive Simpson * Spaceflight magazine *
The perfect guide to equip you with all the info you need * TNT magazine *
He writes with the easy tone you'd want to hear from your space pilot.. Strap yourselves down, and boldly go on a joyride out of this world -- Iain Finlayson * The Times *
There is plenty of curious information here -- Andrew Crumey * Scotland on Sunday *
Even casual popular-science readers will be hard pressed not to find some fascination within these 240 pages ... A compulsive read -- Alex Donohue * Big Issue *
If a space revolution really is on the way, this book is an engaging way of getting up to speed -- Sean Blair * BBC Focus *
This popular-science book is an overview of mankind's 21st-century foray into space travel, equipping the reader with all the information he or she will need to join the space race themselves ... an interesting read -- Clive Simpson * Spaceflight magazine *
PIERS BIZONY has written widely about science, film, history and space. His book The Man Who Ran the Moon tells the story of James E. Webb, the brilliant yet controversial administrator who led NASA as it reached for the moon. Bizony has recently completed Atom, a major tie-in book for a BBC series, about the ideas and personalities that shaped modern quantum theory.
| SKU | Unavailable |
| ISBN 13 | 9781846271267 |
| ISBN 10 | 1846271266 |
| Title | How To Build Your Own Spaceship |
| Author | Piers Bizony |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Granta Books |
| Year published | 2009-04-06 |
| Number of pages | 208 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
| Note | Unavailable |