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Rocket Dreams: Musk, Bezos, and the - Hardcover, by Davenport Christian - Good
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- Type
- Hardcover
- ISBN
- 9780593594117
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Publisher
Crown Publishing Group, T.H.E.
ISBN-10
0593594118
ISBN-13
9780593594117
eBay Product ID (ePID)
2345842560
Product Key Features
Book Title
Rocket Dreams : Musk, Bezos, and the inside Story of the New, Trillion-Dollar Space Race
Number of Pages
384 Pages
Language
English
Publication Year
2025
Topic
Physics / Astrophysics, General, Aeronautics & Astronautics, Corporate & Business History
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
Transportation, Technology & Engineering, Science, Business & Economics
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
Item Height
1.3 in
Item Weight
21.7 Oz
Item Length
9.6 in
Item Width
6.4 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
2025-008373
Reviews
"This is a thrilling account, filled with remarkable reporting and great inside color, of the race between Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos to create commercial rockets. It's an important tale of how American ingenuity and entrepreneurial spirit are creating a new type of space age." --Walter Isaacson, "This is a thrilling account, filled with remarkable reporting and great inside color, of the race between Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos to create commercial rockets. It's an important tale of how American ingenuity and entrepreneurial spirit are creating a new type of space age." --Walter Isaacson "Davenport is impressively sourced and his book is a fine piece of reporting; historians will be able to use this first draft of rocket history to craft deeper analyses of our first real steps as a space-faring society." -- The New York Times "[Davenport] deftly blends nuanced portraits of his principals with accessible explanations of the relevant technology and fascinating space lore. Timely, thorough reporting on the companies vying for supremacy in the final frontier." --Kirkus Reviews "A gripping, up close window into the past several years of fierce competition and achievement in space, Rocket Dreams also manages to bring out the human stories at its heart. Davenport--one of the world's foremost space journalists--takes the reader inside the conversations where many of the most important decisions in today's space sector were made. A remarkable achievement; I couldn't put it down." --Matthew Weinzierl, Senior Associate Dean and Chair of the MBA Program at Harvard Business School " Rocket Dreams brings readers into the boardrooms and onto the private jets of the key people who brought about a spaceflight revolution over the last decade. Richly reported, it tells the essential story of how a few NASA leaders and two billionaires pushed the government to change the way humans access space foreve r. " --Eric Berger, author of Liftoff and Reentry "In Rocket Dreams , Christian Davenport brings the reader into the intimate conversations and decisions that have brought the space program to where it is today and where it will be in the future. It is an eye-opening account of how space exploration by countries has transformed from governments and private enterprise working together to answer scientific questions into an exciting business sector." --Mike Massimino, New York Times bestselling author of Spaceman "As one of the best reporters on the space beat, Christian Davenport has had a front row seat to the entire spectacular space age show, chronicling every unbelievable new milestone reached, every new rocket launched, every unplanned orbital flameout. His latest book, Rocket Dreams , is a must-read for a behind-the-scenes look at how the world's billionaires have transformed spaceflight from a once purely government endeavor into a private sector enterprise that could change the course of humanity's journey into the stars." --Loren Grush, Bloomberg space reporter and author of The Six: The Untold Story of America's First Women Astronauts "A captivating, fast-paced account of the ambitions and rivalries of the billionaires and superpowers driving modern space exploration. . . . Well sourced with a surprising level of access to major players like Musk. . . . The book's fly-on-the wall perspective . . . makes for a revealing glimpse into the egomaniacal antics, stagnant bureaucracy, and awe-inspiring advancement that define the new space age." --Publishers Weekly, "This is a thrilling account, filled with remarkable reporting and great inside color, of the race between Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos to create commercial rockets. It's an important tale of how American ingenuity and entrepreneurial spirit are creating a new type of space age." --Walter Isaacson "A thorough accounting of the growing friction between space billionaires Jeff Bezos and Elon Musk, with insights from private jets and secret meetings, Twitter spats and battles for government contracts. . . . Davenport gently and powerfully illustrates the absurdity of certain events simply by straightforwardly describing them." -- The Washington Post "Davenport is impressively sourced and his book is a fine piece of reporting; historians will be able to use this first draft of rocket history to craft deeper analyses of our first real steps as a space-faring society." -- The New York Times Book Review "[Davenport] deftly blends nuanced portraits of his principals with accessible explanations of the relevant technology and fascinating space lore. Timely, thorough reporting on the companies vying for supremacy in the final frontier." --Kirkus Reviews "A gripping, up close window into the past several years of fierce competition and achievement in space, Rocket Dreams also manages to bring out the human stories at its heart. Davenport--one of the world's foremost space journalists--takes the reader inside the conversations where many of the most important decisions in today's space sector were made. A remarkable achievement; I couldn't put it down." --Matthew Weinzierl, Senior Associate Dean and Chair of the MBA Program at Harvard Business School " Rocket Dreams brings readers into the boardrooms and onto the private jets of the key people who brought about a spaceflight revolution over the last decade. Richly reported, it tells the essential story of how a few NASA leaders and two billionaires pushed the government to change the way humans access space foreve r. " --Eric Berger, author of Liftoff and Reentry " Rocket Dreams . . . is an eye-opening account of how space exploration by countries has transformed from governments and private enterprise working together to answer scientific questions into an exciting business sector." --Mike Massimino, New York Times bestselling author of Spaceman "As one of the best reporters on the space beat, Christian Davenport has had a front row seat to the entire spectacular space age show, chronicling every unbelievable new milestone reached, every new rocket launched, every unplanned orbital flameout." --Loren Grush, Bloomberg space reporter and author of The Six: The Untold Story of America's First Women Astronauts "A captivating, fast-paced account of the ambitions and rivalries of the billionaires and superpowers driving modern space exploration. . . . The book's fly-on-the wall perspective . . . makes for a revealing glimpse into the egomaniacal antics, stagnant bureaucracy, and awe-inspiring advancement that define the new space age." --Publishers Weekly
Synopsis
"Thrilling . . . an important tale of how American ingenuity and entrepreneurial spirit is creating a new type of space age."--Walter Isaacson, New York Times bestselling author of Elon Musk Musk vs. Bezos. China vs. the United States. The government vs. the private sector. Welcome to the rivalries and alliances defining the New Space Age. At stake? Trillions of dollars, national prestige, and a place in the history books. "A fine piece of reporting; historians will be able to use this first draft of rocket history to craft deeper analyses of our first real steps as a space-faring society."-- The New York Times Moon landings and space walks once captivated the public's attention. But, in recent decades, the U.S. space enterprise has felt moribund. Now, that's finally about to change. A fleet of powerful new rockets is poised to take humans into the cosmos more than ever before. A lunar land rush has sparked a geopolitical competition among nations. And the world's two richest men have engaged in escalating brinkmanship, as NASA and the U.S. government embraces Silicon Valley innovation to jump-start the nation's ambitions. Space has entered a golden age, and this is just the beginning. In this gripping work, award-winning Washington Post writer Christian Davenport chronicles the mad scramble to shape humanity's off-planet future. He takes readers behind the scenes at NASA and the Pentagon as China's aggressive moon mining plans raise alarms, onto the sprawling Cape Canaveral factory where Blue Origin is working toward Amazon-style lunar deliveries, and onto SpaceX launch pads as Musk's engineers log 100-hour weeks--leaving veteran astronauts marveling that they're now operating "flying iPhones." What will happen as human ambition outpaces governmental regulation? Which country will win the race back to the moon? Was Donald Trump's much-derided creation of the Space Force a surprising act of foresight, and will the U.S. finally make a real push to the moon and eventually toward Mars? Masterfully paced, rigorously reported, and vividly told, Rocket Dreams offers a riveting, fly-on-the-wall account of the grit-fueled global battle to push humankind further into the cosmos--revealing that the science fiction dreams of the last century may soon become our reality.
LC Classification Number
TL789.8.U5D268 2025
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