LEADER 04260nam 22006495 450 001 9910300426503321 005 20251116133912.0 010 $a3-319-09262-6 024 7 $a10.1007/978-3-319-09262-1 035 $a(CKB)3710000000360262 035 $a(EBL)1998167 035 $a(OCoLC)904046326 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001452321 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11808780 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001452321 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)11487210 035 $a(PQKB)10373453 035 $a(DE-He213)978-3-319-09262-1 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC1998167 035 $a(PPN)184497787 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000000360262 100 $a20150223d2015 u| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aVirgin Galactic $eThe First Ten Years /$fby Erik Seedhouse 205 $a1st ed. 2015. 210 1$aCham :$cSpringer International Publishing :$cImprint: Springer,$d2015. 215 $a1 online resource (219 p.) 225 1 $aSpace Exploration 300 $aIncludes index. 311 08$a3-319-09261-8 327 $aSuborbital Flight/: A Primer -- X-Prize -- SpaceShipOne -- Scaled Composites -- Spaceport in New Mexico -- Medical and Training Requirements -- Meet the Passengers -- Missions -- Beyond Suborbital Space. 330 $aThirty years ago when Sir Richard Branson called up Boeing and asked if they had a spare 747, few would have predicted the brash entrepreneur would so radically transform the placid business of air travel. But today, Branson flies airlines on six continents, employs hundreds of jets and, in 2014, was predicting that his spaceship company ? Virgin Galactic ? would soon open the space frontier to commercial astronauts, payload specialists, scientists and space tourists. With more than 600 seats sold at $250,000 each, what started off as a dream to send people just for the excitement to look back and marvel at Earth, was on the cusp of finally being turned into a business. Then, on October 21, 2014, tragedy struck. SpaceShipTwo was on its most ambitious test flight to date. Seconds after firing its engine, Virgin Galactic?s spaceship was breaking through the sound barrier. In just the three seconds that it took for the vehicle to climb from Mach 0.94 to Mach 1.02, co-pilot Mike Alsbury made what many close to the event believe was a fatal mistake that led to his death and the disintegration of SpaceShipTwo. Miraculously, the pilot, Peter Siebold, survived the 16-km fall back to Earth. Soon after the event Branson vowed to continue his space tourism venture. Already a second SpaceShipTwo is being built, and ticket-holders eagerly await the day when Virgin Galactic offers quick, routine and affordable access to the edge of space. This book explains the hurdles Virgin Galactic has had and still has to overcome en route to developing suborbital space travel as a profitable economic entity, and describes the missions that will be flown on board SpaceShipTwo Mk II, including high-altitude science studies, astronomy, life sciences, and microgravity physics. 410 0$aSpace Exploration 606 $aAerospace engineering 606 $aAstronautics 606 $aSpace sciences 606 $aAstronomy 606 $aAerospace Technology and Astronautics$3https://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/T17050 606 $aSpace Sciences (including Extraterrestrial Physics, Space Exploration and Astronautics)$3https://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/P22030 606 $aPopular Science in Astronomy$3https://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/Q11009 615 0$aAerospace engineering. 615 0$aAstronautics. 615 0$aSpace sciences. 615 0$aAstronomy. 615 14$aAerospace Technology and Astronautics. 615 24$aSpace Sciences (including Extraterrestrial Physics, Space Exploration and Astronautics). 615 24$aPopular Science in Astronomy. 676 $a629.4 700 $aSeedhouse$b Erik$4aut$4http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut$0791794 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910300426503321 996 $aVirgin Galactic$91773041 997 $aUNINA