03612nam a22005535i 4500 978-3-031-55604-3 DE-He213 20251030112018.0 cr nn 008mamaa 240429s2024 sz | s |||| 0|eng d 9783031556043 978-3-031-55604-3 10.1007/978-3-031-55604-3 doi TL787-4050 TTD bicssc SCI098000 bisacsh TTD thema Seedhouse, Erik. author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut 76004 Commercial Astronauts [electronic resource] : The Next Generation of Spacefarers / by Erik Seedhouse. 1st ed. 2024. Cham : Springer Nature Switzerland : Imprint: Springer, 2024. XIV, 235 p. 97 illus., 95 illus. in color. online resource. text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda Space Exploration, 2731-541X Chapter 1. Commercial Astronauts -- Chapter 2. The Commercial Spaceflight Market -- Chapter 3. Legal and Liability Considerations -- Chapter 4. Suborbital Operators -- Chapter 5. Orbital Operators -- Chapter 6. Operational Medicine -- Chapter 7. Training -- Chapter 8. Suborbital Missions -- Chapter 9. Orbital Missions. The beginning of the 2020’s witnessed dozens of commercial astronauts fly to space on a variety of vehicles. These spacecraft included SpaceX’s Crew Dragon, which supported the Inspiration4 and Axiom Space missions, Virgin Galactic’s SpaceShipTwo, which supported several suborbital science flights, and Blue Origin’s New Shepard spacecraft, which not only flew celebrities but also its fair share of commercial astronauts. The story of this new breed of spacefarer has only just begun. As evidenced by these missions, commercial spaceflight has grown beyond passengers simply traveling to space just for the ride. With orbital flights involving commercial astronauts staying in space for several days and weeks, companies such as Sierra Space, Axiom Space and Blue Origin are preparing for the next steps in commercial space travel which include the construction of orbiting habitats. But how will the opportunities for commercial astronauts develop, how will they be trained, and will this new group of astronauts evolve? This book describes how the commercial spaceflight industry is evolving, how it will continue to evolve as barriers to entry are reduced, competition grows, and costs are lowered, and how, because of these efforts, opportunities for commercial astronauts will increase. Outer space Exploration. 69043 Astronautics. 66336 Aerospace engineering. 66335 Space. 70200 Space Exploration and Astronautics. 69044 Aerospace Technology and Astronautics. 66339 Space Studies. 72956 SpringerLink (Online service) Springer Nature eBook Printed edition: 9783031556036 Printed edition: 9783031556050 Printed edition: 9783031556067 Space Exploration, 2731-541X 75662 https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-55604-3 ZDB-2-PHA ZDB-2-SXP 59493 59493