Rocket Billionaires
Subtitle: Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, and the New Space Race
By: Tim Fernholz
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Published: 2018
Language: eng
Number of pages: 281
ISBN-13: 9781328662231
Copyright date: 2018
Subjects: Space industrialization; Astronautics; Civilian use
Description: 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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 258-269) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: Space race; title: The rocket-industrial complex; title: The rocket monopoly; title: The Internet guy; title: Friday afternoon space club; title: The tyranny of the rocket; title: Never a straight answer; title: A method of reaching extreme altitudes; title: Test as we fly; title: Change versus more of the same; title: Capture the flag; title: Space race 2.0; title: Reduce, reuse, recycle; title: Pushing the envelope; title: Rocket billionaires; title: Beyond earth orbit; title: Epilogue: a spacefaring civilization.