Rocket Billionaires

✍ Scribed by Tim Fernholz

• Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 1 MB
• Category: Fiction

✦ Synopsis

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The inside story of the new race to conquer space, as Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos spend billions of their own money to explore the final frontier
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For the larger-than-life personalities now staking their fortunes on the development of rocket ships, the new race to explore space could be a dead end--or the key to humanity's salvation.
Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos take center stage in this fast-paced narrative as they attempt to disrupt the space economy, feed their own egos, and maybe even save the world. We also meet a supporting cast of equally fascinating entrepreneurs, from flashy entrepreneur Richard Branson to Las Vegas real-estate billionaire Robert Bigelow. All are united in the profound conviction that commercial space travel will transform our world for the better.
Tim Fernholz's fly-on-the-wall reporting captures an industry in the midst of disruption, as traditional aerospace firms like Boeing and Lockheed Martin scramble to adapt,...