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Forget Hawaii or the Mediterranean. Soon - very soon - you'll be able to add a much more exotic stamp to your passport: space. How will you get there, what will the trip be like and how much training will you need? All you need to know is right here in this guide. Tourists in Space: A Practical Guide supplies all the advice and information you need to make your spaceflight the most rewarding experience of your life. This definitive, real-world guide is packed with helpful facts and suggestions on everything from training, equipment, safety and in-flight procedures to techniques for avoiding space motion sickness and bone demineralization. You'll also find: * Advice on choosing your training agency * Techniques for minimizing the risk of space motion sickness * Information you need to prepare for your medical examination, training and flight * Tips on activities near your training location and much more.

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CHOICE Review

Seedhouse's book is an enthusiastic foray into the "adventurpreneurial" world of space tourism. Today, about a dozen companies are vying to be the first profitable commercial "spaceline." As during the barnstorming airplane days of a century ago, the sky's the limit, and technology is advancing faster than governing standards can be worked out. The book begins with an exciting account of the flight of SpaceshipOne, the X Prize-winning 2004 flight that ignited the current frenzy of private space ventures. Subsequent chapters provide fairly technical discussions of factors a would-be space tourist should consider before plunking down $200,000 or more for the adventure of a lifetime. Topics include current space tourism companies, which types of space planes or rockets are likely to be safest, the variety of training regimens that may be required, and what to expect during suborbital and orbital flights. Seedhouse is a self-proclaimed astronaut wannabe. This, his personal operator's manual, will interest anyone with the money and aspiration to join the elite club of fewer than 500 humans who have soared above an altitude of 100 kilometers. It is a good read for armchair astronauts, too. Summing Up: Recommended. All readers/libraries. T. D. Oswalt Florida Institute of Technology

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Dr. Erik Seedhouse worked as an Astronaut Training Consultant for Bigelow Aerospace in 2005 and wrote their Spaceflight Participants Flight Surgeon's Manual, the precursor to Tourists in Space. He also developed astronaut-training protocols for future spaceflight participants and wrote and edited several chapters of Bigelow Aerospace's Astronaut Training Manual. Dr. Seedhouse is a manned spaceflight consultant and research scientist specializing in environmental life sciences and physiology, the subject in which he obtained his Ph.D. in Physiology while working for the European Space Agency between 1996 and 1998. In 2009, he was one of the final candidates for selection as an astronaut in the CSA's Astronaut Recruitment Campaign. He is a certified commercial suborbital astronaut who will fly a payload mission in 2014. He is also Training Director for Astronauts for Hire and between 2008 - 2013, served as Director of Canada's Manned Centrifuge Operations.