Product Description
by L. Paul Turner (Author)
First profitable step-by-step to a self-sufficient private sector space business community in era of high launch costs. Explains role of spaceship ferry craft, spinships, asteroid miners, ascenders and translunar space. Shows how to build a space-based economic system of high revenues and low costs. Describes low cost delivery to earth from asteroid mining vessels. Reveals three habitat types necessary for self-sustaining space business. Explains how division of risk, ownership and spinship staged construction lowers costs, and finances the space trade. Explains environmentally friendly, low cost to orbit launch system. Lists the ages of space trade development. Lists ways the space trade saves the earth. Builds upon seminal works such as: "Mining the Sky," by John S. Lewis; "The High Frontier," by Dr. Gerard K. O'Neill; and, "Floating to Space," by John M. Powell.
Author Biography
L. Paul Turner flew jets for the USAF, then studied law, real estate planning, and the history of the law, earning his doctorate. During law school he was Director of Environmental Affairs for a local wholesale company, developing and managing one of the early recycling centers. After teaching law and economics, and winning his first appellate case, he started one of the first law seminar websites to provide approved California Bar Association continuing education credits. He is the author of two construction law books. After serving as the Educational Director of a local bar association, the author returned to the recycling field as a Recycling Specialist, collecting and analyzing data for California's unique and successful bottles and cans program. In 2004, the author joined JP Aerospace, building experimental airships and propulsion systems for low cost access to space. The author can be contacted at LPaulTurner2050@gmail.com.
