Discusses American businessman Dennis Tito and his historic trip to the International Space Station on a Russian spacecraft as the first tourist to pay for space travel.
Explors mankind's efforts to venture to outer space, chronicling the events that have led us to this point. Considers how close we are to commercial space flight and spotlights modern efforts to open the final frontier to everyone.
Presents a discussion of fuel systems and spaceship design that also covers the work of various billionaires and entrepreneurs to find new ways to successfully reach space and compete with others for the opportunity to serve commercial and government customers.
"Nowadays, space travel isn't just for professional astronauts doing research or orbital engineers ... It's for people like you." Includes five experiments.
Physicist and astronomer Neil F. Comins provides a guide to outer-space travel, and describes that although tourist trips will probably become the norm, there are risks and challenges that tourists will have to face.
