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Author name: Tim McElyea

: A Vision of Future Space Transportation
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Type of bind: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 629
EAN num: 9781896522937
ISBN number: 1896522939
Label: Collector's Guide Publishing, Ltd.
Manufacturer: Collector's Guide Publishing, Ltd.
Quantity: 1
Page Count: 208
Printing Date: April 25, 2003
Publishing house: Collector's Guide Publishing, Ltd.
Sale Popularity Level: 940185
Studio: Collector's Guide Publishing, Ltd.



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Product Description:
The glorious space age has come and gone. So what now? What's next? To go further, to go faster, we must take the subsequent step. Space is still full of mystery and challenges humankind as much as ever. Ideas on what the subsequent step is, or steps are, vary greatly and there is no shortage of concepts for the future of space transportation. Concepts include new engines, new strategies, harnessing gravity, electromagnetism, nuclear energy and more. This book will take you on a guided visual tour of the future of space transportation. From Earth to Orbit to In-Space transportation, you will sample what is being considered and get an easy-to-understand explanation of what the spacecraft will do and how it will work.

This book is the culmination of years of work with NASA and hours of interviews with leading propusion scientists and aerospace innovators.

Decades ago Dr. Wernher von Braun teamed with Walt Disney to animate a mission to Mars and inspired a generation. Today multimedia, animation and video serve a similar communications need. The CD-ROM included contains official NASA videos, vehicle concept animation, and dynamic multimedia. View spacecraft concepts in 3D, see mission animation and hear very first hand what the visionaries of the aerospace industry hope to accomplish.




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User popularity level: out of 5 stars

Rated by buyers 5 out of 5 stars - A good overview of future concepts
If you are looking for nuts and bolts look elsewhere but if you want a high level overview this is a wornderful book. It is written in easy to understand, non rocket science language and I like it. Pictures are vivid and it is a beatutiful easy to read and understand book.


Rated by buyers 2 out of 5 stars - Pretty Pictures and Little Else
I was very disappointed because I expected some in-depth analysis of space transportation concepts accompanied by beautiful illustrations. I got plenty of renderings but they were mostly ordinary and the text only glossed over the concepts. Some of the descriptions were way off base. For instance, the author took the term "microgravity" literally in describing satellites in low earth orbit (the gravity in low earth orbit is actually almost as intense as on the surface of the earth).

The accompanying CD had only animations and was not informative at all.

For a real vision of space transportation, I highly recommend Robert Zubrin's "Entering Space" or his treatise, "The Case for Mars". They aren't collections of artwork but are more stimulating.


Rated by buyers 2 out of 5 stars - Half-decent Overview
The text is very poorly written and has some technical inaccuracies (like an incorrect explanation of how an electric motor works) but it covers most of the important ideas of the subject. Don't expect much from the illustrations though, they're all basic computer-generated imagery, nothing compared to the incredible Mars Spirit lander animation released by NASA. If you can get past the choppy, dryly written prose and mostly unsatisfying pictures then the inherently interesting conceptual technologies may still satisfy you. The book lacks depth though, and any gems of science are usually too muddled in weird paragraphs to be as gracefully expressed as they deserve.


Rated by buyers 5 out of 5 stars - Great Book
Great book to see into the future of space transportation.


Rated by buyers 5 out of 5 stars - Back to the future
There have been some great books in the past detailing the space transportation methods being considered then- but that's why we call those history.
At this time when we are looking ahead to new and improved ways to get up into orbit and beyond, Apogee books comes out with the best and most timely book on the subject.
This volume details the most recent and newest ideas to come along for vehicles to replace the shuttle system, and the propulsion methods to get us out to the planets. With chapters detailing each new scheme, it covers everything from ballistic capsules to new shuttle designs to vehicles for mass space tourism. Propulsion designs included are up to date- even the NASA nuclear Initive designs are included.
This is the book that congressional aides are carrying around so that they know enough to talk with their bosses- shouldn't you know as much as they?

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