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Wright Stuff - The Century of Effort Behind Your Ticket to Space (Paperback)
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Wright Stuff - The Century of Effort Behind Your Ticket to Space (Paperback)
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As the new industry of space tourism begins its rapid expansion
phase with the introduction of Sir Richard Branson's Virgin
Galactic spaceflights around end 2010/early 2011, the reader of
this book will gain an understanding of how it reached this point.
The story, told through a well-selected collection of photographs,
is of a succession of developments and risk-taking that goes back a
century to the almost simultaneous start of both aviation and
rocketry. The key people in this story are highlighted - and are
given The Wright Stuff Awards - for their contribution. Many of
them are surprising, in that they would not previously been
associated with space tourism, but the author makes their
contributions clear. Readers will learn that their tickets to space
have been made possible not just by the efforts of entrepreneurs
and engineers, but also just as importantly by artists, regulators,
politicians and some of the earliest aviators - all of whom had The
Wright Stuff.
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