The Moon Goddess and the Son

Blurb

The Moon Goddess and the Son is a science fiction novel by American writer Donald Kingsbury, expanded from a novella originally published in the December 1979 issue of Analog magazine.
The Moon Goddess and the Son was a nominee for the Hugo Award for Best Novella in 1980.
Along with the novella, Kingsbury and Roger Arnold published a nonfiction article describing the technologies used in the story for achieving cheap access to Low Earth orbit and beyond.