Space Commerce

by John McLucas

Space Commerce relates the story of private enterprise's unsteady rise to prominence as a major influence on world space policy and research. The first space race proved the technological and military prowess of the two superpowers; but since the 1970s that contest has been supplanted by a multinational struggle to command the commercial opportunities of space. The commercial space age was born in 1965 when Early Bird, the first commercial communications...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674429788
• ISBN13: 9780674429789
• Release Date: February 1991
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 251 Pages
• Weight: 1.18 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.2"