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Showing 1 to 12 of 12 for “"space tourism"”.
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A systems approach to space tourism vehicle development
Thesis (M.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Aeronautics and Astronautics, 1997.
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The relevance of delimitation debate in context of space tourism and space traffic management
… that a legally accepted boundary between air space and outer space would effectively close the existing gap within air and space law which has led to uncertain legal application over space activities. Technology changes in aircraft, spacecraft, combined with the growth of space activity, …
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Analysis of aspects of health care delivery and safety for space tourism and space passengers
Non-career space travelers from around the world will be venturing into space as commercial programs develop and mature. There are multiple forces promoting human suborbital and orbital flight, including; public interest and desire, market and financial drivers, technological advances, and a …
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A technoregulatory analysis of government regulation and oversight in the United States for the protection of passenger safety in commercial human spaceflight
Commercial human spaceflight looks ready to take off as an industry, with "space tourism" as its first application. Paying passengers are likely to begin taking suborbital spaceflights within the next several years, both despite and because of the risks and hazards inherent in human spaceflight. As …
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Assessment of Iso-Ahola’s Theory of Tourism Motivation on Willingness to Fly as a Point-to-Point Suborbital Space Tourist
<p>Suborbital space tourism involves flight in an air vehicle to an altitude exceeding 100 kilometers (62 miles). This altitude is referred to as the Karman Line and the edge of space. Point-to-point space travel is transportation in an air vehicle where the vehicle flies around the earth in space …
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Unsteady Internal Ballistics of a Hybrid Rocket
<p>With the recent progress made in the field of space tourism, hybrid rocket engines have gained a renewed interest due to their simplicity, low cost, operational flexibility, and safety. The flow in the ports of a hybrid rocket motor involves several coupled unsteady phenomena like moving walls, …
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The commercial spaceport
Space tourism is poised for dramatic growth in the coming decades, as an industry once considered the exclusive purview of the military-science elite ramps up to serve the interests of mass commerce. The cost to private citizens for a trip to space today is over twenty million dollars, which buys …
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Public Acceptance of Medical Screening Recommendations, Safety Risks, and Implied Liabilities Requirements for Space Flight Participation
<p>The space tourism industry is preparing to send space flight participants on orbital and suborbital flights. Space flight participants are not professional astronauts and are not subject to the rules and guidelines covering space flight crewmembers. This research addresses public acceptance of …
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Accumulation model processes of human suborbital space transportation industry emergence
… this research was the emerging human suborbital space transportation (“space tourism”) industry. Data came from secondary sources, archival data, and primary sources. This research collected more than 8,400 pieces of secondary and archival data from news aggregator web sites, distilled them into …
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AEROSOL EFFECTS IN HIGH SUPERSONIC FLOWS
… is becoming evermore pertinent with thegrowth of space tourism, continued interest in space exploration, and pursuit of advanced highspeed aircraft for both military and commercial use. For initial investigations, ground test facilities are preferred to flight tests as they are far cheaper and …
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Material Virtuality: Remaking Rio de Janeiro’s Past and Present through Digital Media
… with the city and state and reproduces their space (Lefebvre 1991). This analysis of how digital media intervene in the production of Rio’s space contributes to scholarship that explores Rio’s urban and cultural history (Sevcenko 2003; Needell 1987; Carvalho 2018). In so doing, it adds to …