Spaceplanes From Airport to Spaceport /

• Main Author: Bentley, Matthew A. (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic
• Language: English
• Published: New York, NY : Springer New York : Imprint: Springer, 2009.
• Subjects: Engineering.; Astronomy.; Astronautics.; Aerospace Technology and Astronautics.; Popular Science in Astronomy.
• Online Access: https://ezaccess.library.uitm.edu.my/login?url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-76510-5

Someday, there may be plane-like vehicles that take off from a runway and fly high above Earth, bringing people to work in space, to stay at a space hotel, to visit a Moonbase, or to board another ship for a journey to a neighboring planet in the Solar System. Well, that time is coming, and its com...

Table of Contents:

• Note to Reader
• Preface
• Rocketplanes at the Airport
• Why Spaceplanes?- Rocket Science - Wings Added
• Missiles and Modules
• Crawling into Suborbit: The Baby Spaceplane
• Going Ballistic
• Piggyback to Orbit
• Advanced Propulsion
• Single Stage to Orbit: The Advanced Spaceplane
• Destination Moon: The Lunar Spaceplane
• Strategies for Success
• Spaceplanes at the Spaceport
• Appendices
• Index.