Making Space Happen: Private Space Ventures and the Visionaries Behind Them
“Imagine meeting a century and a half ago with John D. Rockefeller, Andrew Carnegie, George Eastman, Henry Ford, and Thomas Edison. That's what this book is like: a visit with the entrepreneurs who will be the movers and shakers of the space frontier.” —Ben Bova“Paula Berinstein has written a lively, very readable account of ‘colorful people tackling the same basic problem in a variety of ways.’ That problem is opening up space—both near the Earth and on the Moon and Mars—to broad-scale human activity. Berinstein does an eminently fair but also very engrossing job of presenting, often in their own words, the ideas of a cross-section of space entrepreneurs...This is a must-read book for everyone interested in space development.” —John M. Logsdon, Director, Space Policy Institute, George Washington University