The space barons : Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, and the quest to colonize the cosmos / Christian Davenport.
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TextLanguage: English Publisher: New York : PublicAffairs, 2018Edition: First editionDescription: viii, 308 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : color illustrations ; 25 cmContent type: - text
- unmediated
- volume
- 9781610398299 (hardcover)
- 1610398297 (hardcover)
- Bezos, Jeffrey
- Bezos, Jeff (Jeffrey Preston), 1964-
- Musk, Elon
- Musk, Elon (Elon Reeve), 1971-
- Blue Origin (Firm)
- Blue Origen (Empresa) -- Historia
- SpaceX (Firm)
- SpaceX (Empresa)
- Space industrialization -- United States
- Industria aeroespacial -- Estados Unidos
- Industrialists -- United States -- Biography
- Industriales -- Estados Unidos -- Biografías
- Aerospace engineers -- United States -- Biography
- Ingenieros aeroespaciales -- Estados Unidos -- Biografías
- Aerospace industries -- United States
- Industrias aeroespaciales -- Estados Unidos
- Outer space -- Civilian use
- Espacio exterior -- Uso civil
- 338.7/6294092273
- TL 789.85 D247s 2018
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 279-294) and index.
The Space Barons: Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, and the Quest to Colonize the Cosmos is a nonfiction book that chronicles the rise of a new era of space exploration driven by billionaire entrepreneurs. Journalist Christian Davenport explores how visionaries like Elon Musk (SpaceX), Jeff Bezos (Blue Origin), Richard Branson (Virgin Galactic), and Paul Allen (Stratolaunch) are investing their personal fortunes to develop private spaceflight technologies, aiming to reduce launch costs, enable space tourism, and eventually colonize other planets. The book highlights their rivalries, motivations, and the impact they're having on NASA and the traditional aerospace industry.
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