Spacex's Dragon: America's Next Generation Spacecraft (Space Exploration)
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Dragon V2 is a futuristic vehicle that not only provides a means for NASA to transport its astronauts to the orbiting outpost but also advances SpaceXยs core objective of reusability. A direct descendant of Dragon, Dragon V2 can be retrieved, refurbished and re-launched. It is a spacecraft with the potential to completely revolutionize the economics of an industry where equipment costing hundreds of millions of dollars is routinely discarded after a single use. It was presented by SpaceX CEO Elon Musk in May 2014 as the spaceship that will carry NASA astronauts to the International Space Station as soon as 2016. SpaceXยs Dragon ย Americaยs Next Generation Spacecraft describes the extraordinary feats of engineering and human achievement that have placed this revolutionary spacecraft at the forefront of the launch industry and positioned it as the precursor for ultimately transporting humans to Mars. It describes the design and development of Dragon, provides mission highlights of the first six Commercial Resupply Missions, and explains how Musk hopes to eventually colonize Mars. Review: FANTASTIC BOOK FOR SPACECRAFT. - WELL WRITEN WITH PICTURES OF SPACEX DRAGON. FIVE STAR RATING. Review: Four Stars - Very interesting and well documented
| Customer Reviews | 4.1 out of 5 stars 12 Reviews |
S**.
FANTASTIC BOOK FOR SPACECRAFT.
WELL WRITEN WITH PICTURES OF SPACEX DRAGON. FIVE STAR RATING.
J**O
Four Stars
Very interesting and well documented
A**R
It's basically a mission log
I was hoping to get in to detail about the development of the Dragon but that's quite light and restricted to a few paragraphs early on. The rest is basically just a log of its early missions.
P**B
Dragons Den
A very interesting synopsis of Elon Musks baby and Space X overall
R**.
Wikipedia should suffice.
When I purchased this book, I was looking for a more in-depth look into the technical development of SpaceX's Dragon spacecraft. What it turned out to be was a compilation of the high level design aspects and coverage of the other planned crew capsules in development. For almost half the book, the author covers the contracts involved and the first 7 SpaceX launches which resupplied the ISS. Each chapter covering a launch essentially just iterates the mission timeline (down to the second) and adds in a fair amount of editorializing with regards to SpaceX and NASA's involvement. Once this flow of the book was established, I shifted my perspective to treat it as a refresher for SpaceX's progress over the past few years. What you're left with is the feeling that the author skimmed the internet for the most accessible facts, wrote them into this quasi-article-essay and published it with minimal editorial review. Grammatical errors, an instance of a whole paragraph repeated, and a confusing balance between opinion and fact. So while this may be a refreshing reminder of who SpaceX is and what they're attempting to do (rockets & colonize Mars.), in my opinion the author fails to dive too deep into the actual details of the Dragon spacecraft before inserting his own opinion of why SpaceX is the clear leader when compared to the other contract contenders (Boeing, Sierra Nevada, NASA). Now I understand writing a book is no easy feat but as the title of this review suggests, spend the time you would reading this book, check out Wikipedia for SpaceX, CRS missions, Dragon etc. and your curiosity will be more than satisfied.
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