Rocket billionaires : Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, and the new space race
Title:
Rocket billionaires : Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, and the new space race
Author:
Fernholz, Tim, author.
Personal Author:
Publication Information:
Boston : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2018.
©2018
Physical Description:
xviii, 281 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 24 cm
Language:
English
Contents:
Introduction -- Adventure capitalism -- The rocket-industrial complex -- The rocket monopoly -- The Internet guy -- Friday afternoon space club -- The tyranny of the rocket -- Never a straight answer -- A method of reaching extreme altitudes -- Test as we fly -- Change versus more of the same -- Capture the flag -- Space race 2.0 -- Reduce, reuse, recycle -- Pushing the envelope -- Rocket billionaires -- Beyond earth orbit -- Epilogue: a spacefaring civilization.
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ISBN:
9781328662231
Format :
Book
