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Author: Elizabeth WeilPublisher: Bantam Dell Pub Group
Edition Description: IllustratedISBN-10: 0553108867
Category: Biography & MemoirISBN-13: 9780553108866
 RocketryFormat: Hardcover
 --Publication Year: 2002
Condition: Like NewSpecial Attributes: 1st Edition
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This study chronicles the (at times outrageous) attempts of Gary Hudson to build a space craft called Roton that could launch the average Joe into orbit and return him safely home in the course of a single day. Setting up shop in the Mojave Desert, Hudson assembled a disparate team of engineers and test pilots to help him realize his dream.

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Length:230 pages
Height:8.5 in.
Width:5.8 in.
Thickness:1.0 in.
Weight:15.2 oz.

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This is a classic American tale of dreams and obsession--the suspenseful, brilliantly written account of one eccentric man’s hunger to open space travel to us all: to let us rocket into orbit, return to earth, and soar yet again--thus transforming space travel forever.

They All Laughed at Christopher Columbus

Gary Hudson was seven years old when Sputnik flew, nineteen when Neil Armstrong set foot on the moon, and all he ever wanted to do was to travel into space. Between 1970 and 1996 he founded and disbanded five separate rocket-building companies, none meeting with much success. Then, in 1997, at the age of forty-seven, he launched Rotary Rocket. His goal was to develop and build the Roton, the world’s first manned, single-stage-to-orbit, fully reusable spaceship, capable of shuttling ordinary people into orbit and back in a single day. Elizabeth Weil followed Gary for two years, and in this book she brings to vivid life a seductively--perhaps delusionally--optimistic world where science and science fiction meld and fuse, and where imagination and invention collide.

In California’s bleak and windswept Mojave Desert, Gary assembled a fanatical, mismatched crew of engineers and technicians, and Weil bears witness to their Roton endeavor, from first conception to final test flight. The cast includes a pyromaniacal engineer, a world expert on composite airframes, two former Navy test pilots, Gary’s infinitely patient wife, a third-generation Mojave motel owner, and an enigmatic and resourceful financier. At their center shines Gary himself, a man eternally reflecting the glow of a better, lighter, higher world--a world that, despite his flaws and failures, he perpetually convinces us we’re all about to reach.

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"Weil captures the benign madness...."
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FIRST EDITION 2002 - Book is like new inside and outside less minimal shelf wear on dust jacket. 230 pages. An uncurable dreamer builds the first civilian spaceship.

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