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    Types of Spaceships: Past, Present, and Future
    Types of Spaceships: Past, Present, and Future
    Types of Spaceships: Past, Present, and Future
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    Types of Spaceships: Past, Present, and Future

    By Martin Ettington

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    This book is the seventh volume of “The Living in Space Series”. Each volume focuses on one particular technology of living in space.

    In this book the focus is on spaceships used to access and travel in space. In my research I was pretty amazed at how many spaceships have been designed, the large number available in the current era, and that many more are already on the drawing boards.

    Some spaceships like the Space Shuttle seemed like a great idea back in the 1970s and 1980s. But due to the compromises in design were very expensive for each flight and kind of dangerous too. Even though the Space Shuttle was flown for over 30 years it was eventually cancelled because of cost issues.

    The newer transportation systems focus on lowering costs through reusability. This will lead to a much better long term paradigm for expanding people’s entry into space because of the lower costs reusability provides.

    I also needed to determine what types of ships to include in this book. What is a valid spaceship? My decision was to use the Von Karmen Line which says that a spaceship flown higher than 50 miles (80 km) has entered space.

    Using the Von Karmen Line includes one manned device—the X-15 experimental rocket plane as a spaceship although most people wouldn’t think so.
    Lastly, I’ve included some notional spaceship designs which might be used to travel to Mars or other bodies in the Solar System.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherMartin Ettington
    Release dateOct 1, 2020
    ISBN9780463816714
    Types of Spaceships: Past, Present, and Future
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    Martin Ettington

    The owner Martin K. Ettington is an Engineer by training and has had multiple careers. These include technical sales for GE and HP. Martin also Owns his own software and consulting business.Martin’s interest in the Paranormal and Occult goes back to his childhood. He has had many paranormal experiences and has been a student of Eastern Philosophies and Meditation for 35 years.Seeking Enlightenment; he knows that we are already all Enlightened. We just have to realize this deeply.His books are expressions of his creativity to help others understand what he has internalized through study, experience, and membership in different societies.Not many technical persons or scientists spend a lot of time in parallel studying the Metaphysical and have had many spiritual or psychic experiences too.Therefore, Martin believes that he can provide a unique vantage point to integrate Western Scientific thinking with Eastern exploration of the mind and spirit.

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      Types of Spaceships - Martin Ettington

      This book is the seventh volume of The Living in Space Series. Each volume focuses on one particular technology of living in space.

      In this book the focus is on spaceships used to access and travel in space. In my research I was pretty amazed at how many spaceships have been designed, the large number available in the current era, and that many more are already on the drawing boards.

      Some spaceships like the Space Shuttle seemed like a great idea back in the 1970s and 1980s. But due to the compromises in design were very expensive for each flight and kind of dangerous too. Even though the Space Shuttle was flown for over 30 years it was eventually cancelled because of cost issues.

      The newer transportation systems focus on lowering costs through reusability. This will lead to a much better long term paradigm for expanding people’s entry into space because of the lower costs reusability provides.

      I also needed to determine what types of ships to include in this book. What is a valid spaceship? My decision was to use the Von Karmen Line which says that a spaceship flown higher than 50 miles (80 km) has entered space.

      Using the Von Karmen Line includes one manned device—the X-15 experimental rocket plane as a spaceship although most people wouldn’t think so.

      Lastly, I’ve included some notional spaceship designs which might be used to travel to Mars or other bodies in the Solar System.

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      Types of Spaceships: Past, Present, and Future

      The Living in Space Series Book 7

      By Martin K. Ettington

      All Rights Reserved USA 2020

      ISBN: 9780463816714

      Printed in the United States of America

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