Bigelow Aerospace: Colonizing Space One Module at a Time - Brossura

Seedhouse, Erik

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ISBN 10: 3319051962 ISBN 13: 9783319051963

Casa editrice: Springer, 2014

Riassunto

This book describes the technology of expandable modules that inflate into space habitats. It details how this technology is changing the face of commercial spaceflight and is laying the foundation for an orbital economy.

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Recensione

“Robert Bigelow has made a very large fortune in property and hotel chains. ... This excellent book is a great primer on the man, his company and a myriad of ideas all the way to bases on Mars.” (Spaceflight, Vol. 58 (3), 2016)

L'autore

Dr. Erik Seedhouse worked as an 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 a certified commercial suborbital astronaut who will fly a payload mission in 2014. He is also Training Director for Astronauts for Hire and, for the last four years, served as Director of Canada’s Manned Centrifuge Operations.

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• Editore: Springer
• Data di pubblicazione: 2014
• ISBN 10: 3319051962
• ISBN 13: 9783319051963
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 204