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Vance, Ashlee.
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Rockets (Aeronautics) -- Research -- History.
Space industrialization -- United States.
Space tourism.
Outer space -- Civilian use.
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Vance, Ashlee.
Rockets (Aeronautics) -- Research -- History.
Space industrialization -- United States.
Space tourism.
Outer space -- Civilian use.
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When
the
heavens
went
on
sale
: the
misfits
and
geniuses
racing
to
put
space
within
reach
/ Ashlee Vance.
by
Vance, Ashlee.
Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, 2023.
Call #:
338.76294 V222w
Subjects
Rockets (Aeronautics) -- Research -- History.
Space
industrialization -- United States.
Space
tourism.
Outer
space
-- Civilian use.
ISBN:
9780062998873 (hc.)
Alternate title:
Misfits
and
geniuses
racing
to
put
space
within
reach
Edition:
1st ed.
Description:
513 p. : ill. (chiefly col.), map ; 24 cm.
Notes:
Includes index.
Summary:
"With the launch of the Falcon 1 rocket in 2008, Elon Musk's SpaceX became the first private company to build a low-cost rocket that could
reach
orbit. And that milestone carried major implications: Silicon Valley, not NASA, was suddenly cemented as the epicenter of the new
Space
Age. Start-ups and the wealthy investors behind them began to realize that the universe -- ungoverned and infinite -- was open for business. Welcome to the wild West of aerospace engineering. The book tells the remarkable, unfolding story of this frenzied intergalactic land grab. Through his trademark immersive reporting, Ashlee Vance follows four pioneering companies -- Astra, Firefly, Planet Labs, and Rocket Lab -- as they build new
space
systems and attempt to launch rockets into orbit. While the public fixated on the
space
tourism being driven by Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, and Richard Branson, these new companies arrived with a different set of goals: to make rocket and satellite launches fast and cheap, thereby opening Earth's lower orbit for business -- and setting it up as the next playing field for humankind's technological evolution, where we can connect, analyze, and monitor everything on Earth. Vance has had a front row seat and singular access to this peculiar and unprecedented moment in history. The book travels through private company headquarters, labs, and top-secret launch locations around the world, including California, Texas, Alaska, New Zealand, Ukraine, India, and French Guiana. Vance chronicles it all in full color: the private jets, communes, gun-toting bodyguards, hallucinogens, espionage investigations, and multi-millionaires guzzling booze to dull the pain as their fortunes disappear. With the most detailed and intimate reporting of Vance's career, the book reveals the spectacular chaos of the new business of
space
, and what happens
when
the idealistic, ambitious minds of Silicon Valley turn their unbridled vision toward the limitless expanse of the stars. This is the most pressing and controversial technology story of our times, a tale of fascinating characters chasing unimaginable stakes as they race to
space
."-- From publisher.
Ashlee Vance is the New York Times bestselling author of Elon Musk and a feature writer at Bloomberg BusinessWeek. He's also the host of Hello World, a travel show that centers on inventors and scientists all over the planet. Previously, he worked as a reporter for The New York Times, The Economist, and The Register.
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