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What happened to the space program? Has it shrunk to the space shuttle orbiting the Earth on scientific missions a few times a year? Are we keeping up with our international competitors? The answer to this last question is "No". The government monopoly in space transportation is losing the new commercial space race because it uses old ideas and inefficient business practices. And it costs far too much.

Halfway to Anywhere tells the story of the development and future potential of the reusable Single-Stage-To-Orbit (SSTO) spaceship-a spaceship NASA bureaucrats once said was impossible. But an experimental rocket, the DC-X was built in twenty-two months with a tiny government contract and parts scrounged from space junk yards and Wal-mart. The DC-X first flew in 1993 and was repeatedly flown and tested until 1995; it proved the concepts of reusability and quick turnaround like an airliner. SSTO means economical, reliable, on demand space transportation of people and cargos to and from low-Earth orbit within a decade. Commercial spaceships that operate like airliners are possible and profitable, and Halfway to Anywhere tells how and why.

G. Harry Stine is one of the first people to recognize the many benefts of commercial space activities. He began writing about it in 1972 and was one of the first consultants to NASA on space industrialization. During the Apollo manned lunar landing program, he was science consultant for CBS TV News in New York. He is a founder of the Citizens' Advisory Council on National Space Policy, serves on the Steering Group of the NASA/Space Transportation Association study on space tourism, and is a member of the Arizona Space Commission.

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GENERAL TABLE OF CONTENTS

-Contents.

-Foreword by Charles "Pete" Conrad, Jr.

-Foreword by Wolfgang H. Demisch.

-Preface.

-Part One. The Birth of the Concept.

-1. The Rooster Crows at White Sands.
-2. Disintegrating Totem Poles.
-3. All Things to All People-At a Price.
-4. The Genesis of an Idea.
-5. ROMBUSES and Plug Nozzles.
-6. SERVS and Space Merchants.
-7. Space Services and Society Expeditions.
-8. Hunter and the Council.

-Part Two. Testing the Concept.

-9. SDIO and Phase I.
-10. The Delta Clipper.
-11. Roll Over and Roll-out.
-12. "It Works!"
-13. The Huntsville Meeting.
-14. The Opposition Heats Up.
-15. Sitting in the Hangar and on the Funds.
-16. Success and Succesful Failure.
-17. Sponable's Rules and the X-Vehicle Hearing.
-18. Space Policy, Code X, and the Round Table.
-19. The CAN, the NAC, and Other Players.
-20. The X-33 Decision.

-Chapter Three. Access to Dreams.

-21. It's the Economics, Stupid!
-22. To Market, To Market.
-23. Single-Stage-to-Overseas: Global Express.
-24. The Unbelievable Market.
-25. Spaceports.
-26. "Superata Tellus Sidera Donat".

-Appendix.

-Excerpts from a Talk Before the Space.
-Transportation Association by Daniel Goldin, NASA Administrator.

-Acknowledgments.

-Bibliography

-Addresses.

-Index.