Space Tourism

Cover -- Table of Contents -- Preface -- Introduction -- Chapter 1: Before the flight -- The Experience Begins -- Chapter 2: Selection for spaceflight -- When Can You Go? -- Safety First -- Radiation -- Back in the Atmosphere -- Landing -- Chapter 3: Getting reading -- Safety -- Spaceflight Theory -- Geography -- Medical Issues -- The Third Day -- EVA Training -- Centrifugue and Water Landing Survival -- Chapter 4: Astronauts at school -- Training Program -- Preparing the Spacecraft -- Chapter 5: Launch -- Chapter 6: The sky is not the limit -- Making it Affordable -- The Development of Spaceplanes -- Reusability -- Financing the Future -- Nuclear Rockets, Laser Craft and Space Elevators -- Chapter 7: In orbit -- Earth Orbit -- Activities in Microgravity -- The "Freedom Flyer" -- Going Outside -- Chapter 8: Space stations: Giant cans and wheels in the sky -- Hotels in Space? -- Checking in at a 2040+ space hotel -- Microgravity Sports and Recreation -- Space Loving -- Space Food -- Sweet Dreams -- Pets in Space -- Chapter 9: The end of the tour -- Chapter 10: Returning from space -- Rough Landings -- Spacediving -- Putting Your Feet Back on the Ground -- Souvenirs -- Chapter 11: To the moon, Mars and beyond -- Fly Me to the Moon -- Lunar activities -- Reaching the moonhouse -- Mars Vacation -- Space Colonies -- More Distant Worlds -- Mercury -- Venus -- The giant planets and Pluto -- Asteroids and comets -- The constraints of distance -- At the Speed of Light -- Chapter 12: The road ahead -- Cost and Safety -- Be a Space Tourist Now -- Bibliography.