The Space Barons by Guy Davenport
Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, and the Quest to Colonize the Cosmos
The book traces how a handful of wealthy entrepreneurs—chiefly Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos, along with Richard Branson and Paul Allen—sought to remake spaceflight by founding private companies that challenged NASA’s monopoly, blending technical risk-taking, fierce rivalry, and personal ambition. It follows their differing strategies, early failures and notable successes—reusable rockets, suborbital tourism, and commercial cargo missions—while examining regulatory, military, and cultural obstacles and the broader implications for the commercialization and eventual settlement of space. Through reporting on engineering milestones and intimate profiles, the narrative explains how private capital and competition are transforming access to, and the future of, the cosmos.
- Published
- 2018
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- American
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- English
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