SpaceX: Making Commercial Spaceflight a Reality - Couverture souple

Seedhouse, Erik

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1461455138 ISBN 13 : 9781461455134

Editeur : Praxis, 2013

Synopsis

This book describes the exceptional engineering and human achievement that have placed SpaceX at the forefront of the launch industry, showing how simplicity, low cost and reliability help make it the most likely candidate for transporting humans to Mars.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

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.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Praxis
• Date d'édition: 2013
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1461455138
• ISBN 13: 9781461455134
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 224
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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