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Introduction: Commercial potential for space tourism | p. 1 |
Strapping rockets to dreams: The significance of SpaceShipOne | p. 13 |
Suborbital company profiles, technology drivers, and mission architecture | p. 21 |
Medical and training requirements for suborbital flight | p. 47 |
Orbital flight: The orbital experience, company profiles, mission architectures, and enabling technologies | p. 81 |
Medical certification: Spaceflight participant medical standards and certification | p. 109 |
Training for orbital flight | p. 139 |
Introduction to the space environment | p. 155 |
Survival training | p. 187 |
Medical training | p. 215 |
G tolerance and high-altitude indoctrination training | p. 233 |
Space motion sickness and zero-G theory | p. 251 |
Onboard systems orientation and generic vehicle orientation | p. 265 |
Flight and emergency procedures | p. 275 |
Commercial applications of space tourism | p. 285 |
Advanced space tourism | p. 293 |
Epilogue | p. 305 |
Index | p. 307 |
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