Rocket billionaires : Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, and the new space race / Tim Fernholz.
Title:
Rocket billionaires : Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, and the new space race / Tim Fernholz.
ISBN:
9781328662231
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Publication Information:
Boston : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2018.
©2018
Physical Description:
xviii, 281 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 24 cm
Contents:
Introduction -- Space race -- The rocket-industrial complex -- The rocket monopoly -- The Internet guy -- Friday afternoon space club -- The tyranny of the rocket -- Never a straight answer -- A method of reaching extreme altitudes -- Test as we fly -- Change versus more of the same -- Capture the flag -- Space race 2.0 -- Reduce, reuse, recycle -- Pushing the envelope -- Rocket billionaires -- Beyond earth orbit -- Epilogue: a spacefaring civilization.
Summary:
Follows the major players and corporations who are all competing in the new "space race" to colonize the Moon, send civilians into space, or send humans to Mars.
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OCLC Number:
ocn994318510
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