Hidden Bibliographic Details
| ISBN: | 9783319215150
3319215159
9783319215143
3319215140
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| Notes: | Includes bibliographical references and index.
Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed November 12, 2015).
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| Summary: | This book describes Dragon V2, a futuristic vehicle that not only provides a means for NASA to transport its astronauts to the orbiting outpost but also advances SpaceX's core objective of reusability. A direct descendant of Dragon, Dragon V2 can be retrieved, refurbished and re-launched. It is a spacecraft with the potential to completely revolutionize the economics of an industry where equipment costing hundreds of millions of dollars is routinely discarded after a single use. It was presented by SpaceX CEO Elon Musk in May 2014 as the spaceship that will carry NASA astronauts to the International Space Station as soon as 2016. SpaceX's Dragon America's Next Generation Spacecraft describes the extraordinary feats of engineering and human achievement that have placed this revolutionary spacecraft at the forefront of the launch industry and positioned it as the precursor for ultimately transporting humans to Mars. It describes the design and development of Dragon, provides mission highlights of the first six Commercial Resupply Missions, and explains how Musk hopes to eventually colonize Mars.
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| Other form: | Print version: Seedhouse, Erik. SpaceX's dragon. Chichester, UK : Springer, published in association with Praxis Publishing, 2016 3319215140 9783319215143
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| Standard no.: | 10.1007/978-3-319-21515-0
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