"Allen Steele - Orbital Decay" - читать интересную книгу автора (Steele Allen)

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This ones for Linda because of all the right reasons And for her
favorite band, The Grateful Dead
Acknowledgements The author extends
his deepest gratitude to the people who helped make this novel
possible: Rick Dunning, who designed Olympus Station and aided in the
design of Vulcan Station, and otherwise acted as an unofficial science
adviser in the creation of the backgrounds and technology; Jin Ball of
NASA's Public Affairs Office at the Kennedy Space Center, who gave me a
first-class tour of the facilities and answered many questions about
flight operations at the Cape; David Magi, also of the Kennedy Space
Center, who lent me an enlightening half-hour of his time; Jove
Patterson and Roy Fisher of the University of Missouri School of
Journalism, for enabling me to take off on a couple of off-campus trips
to the Cape and Washington, D.C which allowed me to gather material
while conducting postgraduate research at the same time; Ken Moore,
John Holus, and Dan Caldwell of the Nashville Science Fiction Club, who
supplied me with invaluable insights, criticism, and magazine articles
during the genesis of the book (and to Ken's cats--Avco, Big Black,
Pinhead, and Token-for educating me in feline psychology); Ginjer
Buchanan, who rescued this novel from the slush pile and gave me
encouragement when it was needed the most; ian Ralph, who volunteered
to be the novel's first reader and survived the experience to give me a
critique; and, definitely not the least, Linda, for back rubs,
patience, beer runs, and all the other big and little things.

September, 1983-October, 1986; Columbia, Missouri; Nashville,
Tennessee; Washington, D.C.; Worcester, Massachusetts
"Just as the
oceans opened up a new world for clipper ships and Yankee traders,
space holds enormous potential for commerce today. The market for
space transportation could surpass our capacity to develop it.

Companies interested in putting payloads into space must have ready
access to private sector launch services ... We will soon implement a
number of executive initiatives, develop proposals to ease regulatory
constraints, and, with NASA's help, promote private sector investment
in space.


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