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A revolution in spaceflight is likely soon with the prospect of everyday access to orbit within fifteen years. Costly launch vehicles based on ballistic missiles will be replaced by 'spaceplanes', using technology that exists today. In five years' time, a prototype could be built, and with a further ten years of detailed development, the design could approach airliner maturity, reducing the cost of sending people into space some one thousand times to around US20,000.Spaceplane development has, in effect, been suppressed by entrenched thinking and short-term vested interests. But the present m

Space flight. --- Aeronautics --- Airline flights --- Voyages and travels --- Rocket flight --- Space travel --- Spaceflight --- Astrodynamics --- Astronautics --- Interplanetary voyages --- Navigation (Astronautics) --- Flights. --- Voyages --- Flights

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An exploration of the changing conceptions of the iconic Space Shuttle and a call for a new vision of spaceflight The thirty years of Space Shuttle flights saw contrary changes in American visions of space. Valerie Neal, who has spent much of her career examining the Space Shuttle program, uses this iconic vehicle to question over four decades' worth of thinking about, and struggling with, the meaning of human spaceflight. She examines the ideas, images, and icons that emerged as NASA, Congress, journalists, and others sought to communicate rationales for, or critiques of, the Space Shuttle missions. At times concurrently, the Space Shuttle was billed as delivery truck and orbiting science lab, near-Earth station and space explorer, costly disaster and pinnacle of engineering success. The book's multidisciplinary approach reveals these competing depictions to examine the meaning of the spaceflight enterprise. Given the end of the Space Shuttle flights in 2011, Neal makes an appeal to reframe spaceflight once again to propel humanity forward.

Space flights. --- Space shuttles. --- Shuttles, Space --- Reusable space vehicles --- Manned space flights --- Missions (Astronautics) --- Voyages and travels

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This eBook is a collection of articles from a Frontiers Research Topic. Frontiers Research Topics are very popular trademarks of the Frontiers Journals Series: they are collections of at least ten articles, all centered on a particular subject. With their unique mix of varied contributions from Original Research to Review Articles, Frontiers Research Topics unify the most influential researchers, the latest key findings and historical advances in a hot research area! Find out more on how to host your own Frontiers Research Topic or contribute to one as an author by contacting the Frontiers Editorial Office: frontiersin.org/about/contact

Unsteady states --- Physiological challenges --- Hyperbaric --- temperature --- Diving --- Parabolic flights --- stress --- coping --- Learning --- Oxygen

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The 1950s and 1960s were a transformative period in Britain, and an important part of this was how Britons' lives were changed when they began flying abroad for their holidays. In A World Away Law investigates how something that previously only the rich could afford became available to working-class holidaymakers.

Tourists. --- 1960s. --- Spain. --- authenticity. --- charter flights. --- holidays. --- package tours. --- tourism. --- vacations.

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In ‘Columbia: Final Voyage’ aerospace writer Philip Chien, who has over 20 years’ experience covering the US space program, provides a unique insight into the crew members who lost their lives in the Columbia disaster. Chien interviewed all seven crew members several times and got to know them as individuals. He reviews in detail their training, their scientific work and other activities during their successful 16-day flight, the background of the accident itself and a detailed first-hand account of what happened that fateful day in February 2003. The author provides a comprehensive and personal look at both the Columbia astronauts and the STS-107 mission, together with a behind-the-scenes account of other people involved in the mission and their personal reactions to the accident. Forward by Jonathan B. Clark, widower of Columbia astronaut Laurel Clark Introduction by Apollo 11 astronaut Buzz Aldrin.

Space shuttles --- Space flights. --- Astronauts --- Accidents --- Space Shuttle Program (U.S.) --- Columbia (Spacecraft) --- Shuttles, Space --- Reusable space vehicles --- Manned space flights --- Missions (Astronautics) --- Voyages and travels --- U.S.S. Columbia (Spacecraft) --- USS Columbia (Spacecraft) --- United States.