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Tourists in space : a practical guide
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| Format: | Printed Book |
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Berlin ; New York :
Springer, Published in association with Praxis Pub., Chichester, UK,
c2008.
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| Series: | Springer-Praxis books in space exploration
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction : commercial potential for space tourism
- Strapping rockets to dreams : the significance of SpaceShipOne
- Suborbital company profiles, technology drivers, and mission architecture
- Medical and training requirements for suborbital flight
- Orbital flight : the orbital experience, company profiles, mission architectures, and enabling technologies
- Medical certification : spaceflight participant medical standards and certification
- Training for orbital flight. Introduction to the space environment ; Survival training ; Medical training ; G tolerance and high-altitude indoctrination training ; Space motion sickness and zero-G theory ; Onboard systems orientation and generic vehicle orientation ; Flight and emergency procedures
- Commercial applications of space tourism
- Advanced space tourism.