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When the heavens went on sale : the misfits and geniuses who put space within reach / by Vance, Ashlee,author.;
"With the launch of the Falcon 1 rocket in 2008, Elon Musk's SpaceX became the first private company to build a low-cost rocket that could reach orbit. And that milestone carried major implications: Silicon Valley, not NASA, was suddenly cemented as the epicenter of the new Space Age. Start-ups and the wealthy investors behind them began to realize that the universe--ungoverned and infinite--was open for business. Welcome to the wild west of aerospace engineering. When the Heavens Went on Sale tells the remarkable, unfolding story of this frenzied intergalactic land grab. Through his trademark immersive reporting, Ashlee Vance follows four pioneering companies--Astra, Firefly, Planet Labs, and Rocket Lab--as they build new space systems and attempt to launch rockets into orbit. While the public fixated on the space tourism being driven by Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, and Richard Branson, these new companies arrived with a different set of goals: to make rocket and satellite launches fast and cheap, thereby opening Earth's lower orbit for business--and setting it up as the next playing field for humankind's technological evolution, where we can connect, analyze, and monitor everything on Earth. Vance has had a front row seat and singular access to this peculiar and unprecedented moment in history. When the Heavens Went on Sale travels through private company headquarters, labs, and top-secret launch locations around the world, including California, Texas, Alaska, New Zealand, Ukraine, India, and French Guiana. Vance chronicles it all in full color: the private jets, communes, gun-toting bodyguards, hallucinogens, espionage investigations, and multi-millionaires guzzling booze to dull the pain as their fortunes disappear. With the most detailed and intimate reporting of Vance's career, When the Heavens Went on Sale reveals the spectacular chaos of the new business of space, and what happens when the idealistic, ambitious minds of Silicon Valley turn their unbridled vision toward the limitless expanse of the stars. This is the most pressing and controversial technology story of our times, a tale of fascinating characters chasing unimaginable stakes as they race to space"--
Subjects: Privatization.; Rockets (Aeronautics); Space tourism.;
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Horizon / by Lopez, Barry Holstun,1945-author.;
Includes bibliographical references and index."From the National Book Award-winning writer, humanitarian, environmentalist and author of the now-classic Arctic Dreams: a vivid, poetic, capacious work that recollects the travels around the world and the encounters--human, animal, and natural--that have shaped his extraordinary life. Poignantly, powerfully, it also asks "How do we move forward?" Taking us nearly from pole to pole--from modern megacities to some of the most remote regions on the earth--Barry Lopez, hailed by the Los Angeles Times Book Review as "one of our finest writers," gives us his most far-ranging yet personal work to date, in a book that moves through decades of his life as it describes his travels to six regions of the world: from the Oregon coast where he lives to the northernmost reaches of Canada; to the Galapagos; to the Kenyan desert; to Botany Bay in Australia; and in the resounding last section of this magisterial book, unforgettably to the ice shelves of Antarctica. As he revisits his growing up and these myriad travels, Lopez also probes the long history of humanity's quests and explorations, including the prehistoric peoples who trekked across Skraeling Island in northern Canada; the colonialists who plundered Central Africa; an Enlightenment-era Englishman who sailed the Pacific and a Native American emissary who arrived in Japan before it opened to the West. He confronts today's ecotourism in the tropics and visits the haunting remnants of a French colonial prison on Île du Diable in French Guiana. Through these journeys, and friendships forged along the way with scientists, archeologists, artists and local residents, Lopez searches for meaning and purpose in a broken world. With tenderness and intimacy, Horizon evokes the stillness and the silence of the hottest, the coldest and the most desolate places on the globe. It speaks with beauty and urgency to the invisible ties that unite us; voices concern and frustration alongside humanity and hope; and looks forward to our shared future as much as it looks back at a single life. Revelatory, powerful, profound, this is an epic work of nonfiction that makes you see the world differently: a crowning achievement by one of our most humane voices--one needed now more than ever."--
Subjects: Lopez, Barry Holstun, 1945-; Travel; Tourism; Natural history.;
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Wide-open world : how volunteering around the globe changed one family's lives forever / by Marshall, John,1965-;
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Subjects: Marshall family; Marshall, John, 1965-; Volunteer tourism.; Volunteers;
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How do you burp in space? : and other tips every space tourist needs to know / by Goodman, Susan E.,1952-; Slack, Michael H.,1969-;
Includes bibliographical references (p. 84-86), Internet addresses and index."A non-fiction travel guide to space tourism that includes information about accommodations, attractions, and more"--Provided by publisher.LSC
Subjects: Manned space flight; Interplanetary voyages; Space tourism;
© 2013., Bloomsbury Children's Books,
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Pure life : (or, Rip blue ride x lucky smash zero naked grace set go) / by Marten, Eugene,author.;
After experiencing holes in his mind and memory from a career of punishment on the field become too large and frightening to ignore, retired pro-football star Nineteen travels to the Mosquito Coast of Honduras in search a miracle brain damage treatment forbidden in the U.S. Instead, he finds himself on a journey that plunges him into a darkness more violent and horrific than he could have possibly imagined--at once a fight for his life and to hold onto the shards and fragments of the life hes fighting for.
Subjects: Thrillers (Fiction); Psychological fiction.; Sports fiction.; Novels.; Brain damage; Ex-football players; Football injuries; Medical tourism; Memory; Voyages and travels;
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Test gods : Virgin Galactic and the making of a modern astronaut / by Schmidle, Nicholas,author.;
Includes bibliographical references and index."Based on exclusive inside reporting, New Yorker writer Nicholas Schmidle tells the remarkable story of the test pilots, engineers, and visionaries behind Virgin Galactic's campaign to build a space tourism company. Schmidle follows a handful of characters-Mark Stucky, Virgin's lead test pilot ; Richard Branson, the eccentric billionaire funding the venture ; Mike Moses, the grounded, unflappable president ; Mike Alsbury, the test pilot who lost his life ; and others-through personal and professional dramas, in pursuit of their collective goal : to make space tourism a reality. Along the way, Schmidle weaves his relationship with his father-a former fighter pilot and decorated war hero-into the tragedies and triumphs that Branson's team encounters out in the Mojave Desert as they design, build, and test-fly their private rocketship. Gripping and novelistic, Test Gods leads us, through human drama, into a previously unseen world-and beyond"--
Subjects: Virgin Galactic; Space vehicles; Test pilots; Astronauts; Space tourism.;
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Thailand [videorecording] : Asia's paradise / by Huot, Jadrino,1970-film producer.; Leduc, Yohan,film producer.; Lefort, Lyne,screenwriter,film director.; Vaillancourt, Simon C.,film director,screenwriter.; Dreamscape Media,publisher.;
Director, Simon C. Vaillancort and Lyne Lefort.Experience Thailand's historical and cultural sites, exquisite cuisine, and impeccable adventure tourism in this beautifully produced documentary.E.DVD, widescreen.
Subjects: Documentary films.; Nonfiction films.; Travelogues (Motion pictures); Video recordings for the hearing impaired.;
For private home use only.
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Cruise Boom. by Mehta, Atman,film director.; Frankenstein, Ellen,film director.; New Day Films (Firm),dst; Kanopy (Firm),dst;
Originally produced by New Day Films in 2023.A small Alaskan town braces for a rapid expansion of cruise ship tourism, pushing residents to grapple with benefits, impacts and what they can control. A portrait of a community on the cusp of change in the face of the global tourism industry.Mode of access: World Wide Web.
Subjects: Documentary films.; Social sciences.; Travel.; Instructional films.; Americans.; Foreign study.; Sociology.; Documentary films.;
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Biodiversity of polar regions / by Pyers, Greg.;
Describes the variety of living things in the polar regions, the threat to polar biodiversity from overfishing, whaling, pollution, tourism, and the greatest threat to the Arctic icecap, global warming.For primary school age.
Subjects: Biodiversity;
© 2010., Macmillan Library,
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Biodiversity of coral reefs / by Pyers, Greg.;
Describes the variety of living things in the world's coral reefs as well as the threat to coral reef biodiversity from overfishing, land clearing, farming, tourism, shipping, and climate change.For primary school age.
Subjects: Coral reefs and islands; Marine biodiversity;
© 2010., Macmillan Library,
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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