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Islands in the Sky: Bold New Ideas for Colonizing Space
 
 

Islands in the Sky: Bold New Ideas for Colonizing Space [Paperback]

Stanley Schmidt , Robert Zubrin
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In spite of crashes, politics, budget battles, and opposition from today's version .of Jules Verne's Baltimore Gun Club, we're on the verge of having inexpensive, reliable, and responsive single-stage-to-orbit (SSTO) spaceships like the Delta Clipper DC-Y described in Dr. Arlan Andrews's science-fact article in the June 1993 issue. Read the first page
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