Your Spaceflight Manual: How You Could Be A Tourist In Space Within Twenty Years

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Hardcover - dust jacket Secondhand book: generally 'Very Good' to 'Excellent'. These are books which may have some slight wear and tear or sun fading on the edges. There may be an inscription at the front.

At the dawn of a new era in human exploration, Your Spaceflight Manual presents a bold and scientifically grounded argument: that ordinary people could be travelling to space as tourists within two decades. David Ashford and Patrick Collins, both aerospace engineers with serious credentials in spaceflight research, chronicle the technological, economic, and logistical pathways that would make commercial space tourism not just a fantasy, but an achievable reality. The book details the spacecraft designs, launch systems, and orbital facilities that would be required to bring the cosmos within reach of the paying public. Written with infectious enthusiasm and rigorous technical insight, the work challenges the assumption that space is the exclusive domain of government agencies and trained astronauts, arguing instead for a future shaped by private enterprise and public demand. Ashford and Collins illustrate a vision of the near future with the conviction of engineers who have done the calculations — leaving the reader to wonder not if, but when, they might book their own ticket to orbit.