Bibliograph

The space barons, Jeff Bezos, Elon Musk, and the quest to colonize the cosmos, Christian Davenport

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The space barons, Jeff Bezos, Elon Musk, and the quest to colonize the cosmos, Christian Davenport

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references and index

resource.biographical

collective biography

Illustrations

photographsplates

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

The space barons

Nature of contents

bibliography

Responsibility statement

Christian Davenport

Sub title

Jeff Bezos, Elon Musk, and the quest to colonize the cosmos

Summary

The Space Barons is the story of a group of billionaire entrepreneurs who are pouring their fortunes into the epic resurrection of the American space program. Nearly a half-century after Neil Armstrong walked on the moon, these Space Barons-most notably Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos, along with Richard Branson and Paul Allen-are using Silicon Valley-style innovation to dramatically lower the cost of space travel, and send humans even further than NASA has gone. These entrepreneurs have founded some of the biggest brands in the world-Amazon, Microsoft, Virgin, Tesla, PayPal-and upended industry after industry. Now they are pursuing the biggest disruption of all: Space. Based on years of reporting and exclusive interviews with all four billionaires, this authoritative account is a dramatic tale of risk and high adventure, the birth of a new Space Age, fueled by some of the world's richest men as they struggle to end governments' monopoly on the cosmos. The Space Barons is also a story of rivalry-hard-charging startups warring with established contractors, and the personal clashes of the leaders of this new space movement, particularly Musk and Bezos, as they aim for the moon and Mars and beyond

Table Of Contents

pt. I IMPOSSIBLE -- ch. 1 "A Silly Way to Die" -- ch. 2 The Gamble -- ch. 3 "Ankle Biter" -- ch. 4 "Somewhere Else Entirely" -- ch. 5 "SpaceShipOne, GovernmentZero" -- pt. II IMPROBABLE -- ch. 6 "Screw It, Let's Do It" -- ch. 7 The Risk -- ch. 8 A Four-Leaf Clover -- ch. 9 "Dependable or a Little Nuts?" -- ch. 10 "Unicorns Dancing in the Flame Duct" -- pt. III INEVITABLE -- ch. 11 Magic Sculpture Garden -- ch. 12 "Space Is Hard" -- ch. 13 "The Eagle Has Landed" -- ch. 14 Mars -- ch. 15 "The Great Inversion"

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