SpaceX by Erik Seedhouse
This first account of commercial spaceflights most successful venture describes the extraordinary feats of engineering and human achievement that have placed SpaceX at the forefront of the launch industry and made it the most likely candidate for transporting humans to Mars.-
How to Drive a Nuclear Reactor
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How Apollo Flew to the Moon
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Cosmology Revealed: Living Inside the Cosmic Egg
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The Apollo Guidance Computer
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Animals in Space
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The Story of the Space Shuttle
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Praxis Manned Spaceflight Log 1961-2006
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In Search of Dark Matter
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The Quizzers Guide to the Cosmos
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Creating the International Space Station
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Manned Spaceflight Log II20062012
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Life in the Solar System and Beyond
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Galaxy Collisions
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War in Space
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The Story of Space Station Mir
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Celestial Mechanics
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Water and the Search for Life on Mars
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Next Stop Mars
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The Road to Galaxy Formation
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Martian Outpost
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The Rocket Men
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Planet Mercury
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Walking in Space
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A Brief History of Nuclear Reactor Accidents
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Russia's Cosmonauts
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Sundials
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The First Men on the Moon
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The First Soviet Cosmonaut Team
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The Continuing Story of The International Space Station
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To Orbit and Back Again
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Apollo
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NASA's Voyager Missions
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X-Planes from the X-1 to the X-60
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The Design and Engineering of Curiosity
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Great Moments in the History of Life
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The Saturn V F-1 Engine
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Mission to Saturn
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Jupiter Odyssey
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NASA's First Space Shuttle Astronaut Selection
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The New Worlds
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Spies in the Sky
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The Star Atlas Companion
Dr. Erik Seedhouse worked as Astronaut Training Consultant for Bigelow Aerospace in 2005, a company for whom he wrote the Spaceflight Participants Flight Surgeon’s Manual. He also developed astronaut-training protocols for future spaceflight participants and wrote and edited several chapters of Bigelow Aerospace’s Astronaut Training Manual. Erik is a research scientist specializing in environmental life sciences and physiology, the subject in which he obtained his Ph.D. in Physiology while working for the European Space Agency between 1996 and 1998. In 2009, he was one of the final candidates for selection as an astronaut in the CSA’s Astronaut Recruitment Campaign. He is the Training Director for Astronauts for Hire (A4H) and is the Canadian Forces’ High Risk Acceleration Training Officer, which means he spins CF pilots in Canada’s centrifuge. He is the author of several space exploration titles, and his most recent “Astronaut’s for Hire” was published in January 2012.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781461455134 |
| ISBN 10 | 1461455138 |
| Title | SpaceX |
| Author | Erik Seedhouse |
| Series | Springer Praxis Books |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Springer-Verlag New York Inc. |
| Year published | 2013-06-15 |
| Number of pages | 206 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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