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Trade paperback. Condición: Very good. Presumed First Edition, First printing. [6], xvi, 496, [2] pages. Footnotes. Illustrations. Maps. Foreword by Bruce McCandless II. This is an Aerospace Technology Working Group Book in partnership with The International Space University and The International Institute of Space Commerce. Among the topics covered are Space Law, Space Data, Spaceport, Space Exploration, Space Applications, Space Commerce, and International Cooperation. Morris has led the innovation consulting practice of InnovationLabs LLC since 2001. He is recognized as one the world's leading thinkers and consultants on innovation, and his original and ground-breaking work has been adopted by corporations and universities to help them improve their innovation processes and the results they achieve. Cox completed his Ph.D. in Digital Flight Systems at Rice University. He spent his career working for NASA at the LBJ Space Center. He played a significant role in the Apollo and Shuttle programs. This book examines the tremendous benefits that come when we think beyond the boundaries of national interests and consider the venture and adventure into space as a matter of shared ambition, shared knowledge, shared risk, and shared benefit across all of humanity. In their previous books on the meaning and significance of space they have explored a broad range of these themes and topics, starting first in Beyond Earth with a broad examination of many different issues, and then in their second volume with a collection of writings about the challenges and opportunities that Living in Space will present. In the third volume in this series they examined the future of business in space, Space Commerce. The underlying premise of each of these books is that space is not only an irresistible lure for our imaginations, but also an inevitable destination for our serious goals and ambitions. Collectively, the many authors who have contributed their works to this series are committed to the realities of life, science, culture, and business in space, and we all agree that extending civilization into space is both a valid destination that will ultimately be home to millions and billions of us, and so in a very real way it also will become humanity's destiny.…