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Hoping to replace the government's monopoly on space commerce with his own, aerospace industrialist Rolf Bernard believes that his new SSTO spacecraft will help him to seize control of low Earth orbit and induce his wife into returning to him
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Can one man, using today's technology, seize and control space, then dictate terms to spacefaring nations? Aerospace industrialist Rolf Bernard will try to pull it off in The Gatekeepers.Bernard, president of a large aerospace company sees his new SSTO (single stage to orbit) spacecraft as his last best chance to truly begin the Age of Space. Thwarted by antagonistic bureaucrats, Rolf decides to replace the government's monopoly with his own. Using his SSTO combined with "brilliant pebbles" SDI hardware Bernard can seize control of low Earth orbit. He plots to save his company, humiliate his enemies, secure his place in history - and convince his estranged wife to come back to him.Can he make it happen? Seizing space is one thing; holding on is quite another.The Gatekeepers introduces you to the next twenty years of space development. Last year McDonnell Douglas successfully launched a prototype of the spaceship featured in this novel; SSTO will revolutionize space transportation in the next 20 years, and this is how.
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