The rocket company /
"A fictionalized account of the challenges faced by a group of seven investors and their engineering team in developing a low-cost, reusable, Earth-to orbit launch vehicle. The marketing, regulatory, and technical problems are explored ... "cover p. [4].
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Reston, Va. :
American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics,
[2005]
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Table of Contents:
- Seven billionaires and one big problem
- Big telescopes, hot rodders, and librarians
- Gateses, Jobses, and the laureates' Lemma
- Build big, build many, or use it again
- Small market, small payload, but not a toy
- Myths, mistrust, and trust
- The pitch
- The business plan
- Mazes, stop cords, and skunk workers
- Fuel tanks, heat shields, and fire walls
- Balloon tanks, fracture mechanics, and friction stir welding
- Enthusiasm bubbles, ejections, and expander cycles
- Gasoline, alcohol, kerosene, or liquid methane
- Design reviews, prototypes, and parawings
- Guidance, navigation, and control
- Webb suit, hard suit, space suit
- Markets, philosophy, techniques, and approaches
- Rockets, jets, and soft landings
- Pilots, payloads, and passengers
- Mooncars, monks, and monasteries
- Aliens, cheetahs, and archea
- Halfway to everywhere
- First stage, first flight
- Stop the production line!
- Earth below us
- Money, manufacturing, and marketing
- Always room for improvement
- Epilogue I Space is finally a place
- Epilogue II Mars for the many.