Entering Space: Creating a Spacefaring Civilization"Robert Zubrin is a true engineering genius like the heroic engineers of the past." --Frederick Turner, American Enterprise Using nuts-and-bolts engineering and a unique grasp of human history, Robert Zubrin takes us to the not-very-distant future, when our global society will branch out into the universe. From the current-day prospect of lunar bases and Mars settlements to the outer reaches of other galaxies, Zubrin delivers the most important and forward-looking work on space and the true possibilities of human exploration since Carl Sagan's Cosmos. Sagan himself said of Zubrin's humans-to-Mars plan, "Bob Zubrin really, nearly alone, changed our thinking on this issue." With Entering Space, he takes us further, into the prospect of human expansion to the outer planets of our own solar system--and beyond. |
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... Shuttle launch costs close to $ 600 million . This is twice that of the pricey Titan IV- Centaur , which offers equivalent lift capability . But since the Shuttle is mostly reusable , if the Shuttle launch rate could be doubled to ...
... Shuttle economics played a central role in the decision to initiate the Space Station program . In the early 1980s , NASA Deputy Administrator Hans Mark saw clearly that achieving a Shuttle launch rate of twenty - five per year would be ...
... Shuttle program proves this . But can reusable launchers be designed that make economic sense ? Absolutely . The Shuttle is a fiscal disaster not because it is reusable , but because both its technical and programmatic bases are ...