Free Space!: Real Alternatives for Reaching Outer Space de B. Alexander Howerton - 1994-12-01

Loompanics Unlimited, January 1995. Trade Paperback . Used - Very Good. Slight wear. May have minor sticker residue or marks or writing. We try to ship every day so your book arrives quicker! We are a small independent book store in the Midwest so we thank you for the support. Satisfaction guaranteed in all transactions. Let us know what we can do to help!

Port Townsend, WA: Loompanics Unlimited, 1995. Softcover. Good/No Jacket. Used Book: Trade Paperback Mild shelf wear to edges and corners of cover, remainder stamp to bottom edge of pages. Binding remains tight and pages are otherwise clean and unbent. Good used reading condition.

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Port Townsend, WA: Loompanics Unlimited, 1994. Presumed First Edition, First printing. Trade paperback. Very good. Dan Wend (Cover Design). [6], 144, [8] pages. Illustrations (some with color). Notes. Index. Cover has slight wear and soiling. The author argues that the way to encourage the exploration of space is to privatize it, and profiles some of the profit-seeking companies that are already active. Nearly a quarter century ago he forecast that the next round in the space race won't be run by NASA. This time, it will be private companies building space stations and shooting payloads to the planets. Science fiction, you say? Take another look. Free Space! opens with an explosive critique of NASA ­p; the government behemoth that put a man on the Moon and has been grounded ever since. Listen in as the author grills the head of NASA at a press conference. Howerton then poignantly pens a new Manifest Destiny for colonizing outer space. The second half of Free Space! contains capsule descriptions of… Leer más