How to Build Your Own Spaceship by Piers Bizony
Ladies and gentlemen, start your spaceships with this book that explores an exciting new era of space travel--the perfect science gift!Personal space travel is no longer the stuff of science fiction. The future is here: Civilians are launching into orbit. How to Build Your Own Spaceship takes readers on a fun and quirky trip to the forefront of commercial space travel-the latest technology, the major business players, and the personal and financial benefits that are ripe for the picking. Science-writer Piers Bizony's breadth of knowledge, quick wit, and no-nonsense explanations of the hard science in this emerging arena will satisfy even the most dedicated space fanatics. With practical advice (from picking the best jet fuel to funding your own fleet of space crafts), unbelievable space facts, and fascinating photos, Bizony's user-friendly guide to blasting off is a must-have ticket to the final frontier.
Piers Bizony is the author of two books published by Zenith Press: The Space Shuttle: Celebrating Thirty Years of NASA's First Space Aircraft and One Big Leap: Apollo 11 Remembered. He has contributed to a number of magazines in the United Kingdom and the United States, writing about science, aerospace, and cosmology. 2001: Shooting the Future, The Rivers of Mars, Starman (a biopic of Yuri Gagarin), and Space: 50, commemorating the fiftieth anniversary of Sputnik, are among his past works.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780452295339 |
| ISBN 10 | 0452295335 |
| Title | How to Build Your Own Spaceship |
| Author | Piers Bizony |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Plume |
| Year published | 2009-07-28 |
| Number of pages | 240 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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