The Space Barons

Volunteer as a space advocate.

The space barons. The book fizzes with some wonderful human stories of imagination and endeavor but also provides a broad sweep of the current state of the space industry. Well researched and entertaining the space barons gives both a rich texture to the beginnings and a tantalizing outline of the future of commercial human space travel michael lopez alegria former nasa astronaut past president of the commercial space flight federation and principal mla space llc. Join fellow space enthusiasts in advancing space science and exploration. Christian davenport has written a terrific book on the new space entrepreneurs newt gingrich entertaining skillfully narrated book the week highly accessible.

Readers frustrated at the trickle of news from china the only nation with an active manned space program will thrill at this lucid detailed and admiring account of wealthy space buffs who are spending their own money making headlines producing genuine technical advances and resurrecting the yearning to explore the cosmos. It covers the rise of the commercial space companies blue origin led by amazon founder jeff bezos and spacex led by paypal and tesla motors founder elon musk. The historic quest to rekindle the human exploration and colonization of space led by two rivals and their vast fortunes egos and visions of space as the next entrepreneurial frontier the space barons is the story of a group of billionaire entrepreneur. The historic quest to rekindle the human exploration and colonization of space led by two rivals and their vast fortunes egos and visions of space as the next entrepreneurial frontier.

While i love everything that has to do with space era which sadly isn t anywhere in the observable future since something went wrong at some point somewhere business innovation new tech daring business undertakings etc etc. Media reviews starred review. Elon musk jeff bezos and the quest to colonize the cosmos by christian davenport.