The space barons : Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, and the quest to colonize the cosmos /
Traces the historic quest to rekindle the human exploration of space as navigated by billionaire entrepreneurs, sharing insights into how professional rivalry and Silicon Valley innovations are lowering the cost of space travel and exceeding the achievements of NASA.
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New York :
Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company,
2018.
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| Edition: | Large print edition. |
| Series: | Thorndike Press large print biographies and memoirs.
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| 505 | 0 | |a Introduction: "Touchdown" -- Part I: Impossible. "A silly way to die" -- The gamble -- "Ankle biter" -- "Somewhere else entirely" -- "SpaceShipOne, GovernmentZero" -- Part II: Improbable. "Screw it, let's do it" -- The risk -- A four-leaf clover -- "Dependable or a little nuts?" -- "Unicorns dancing in the flame duct" -- Part III: Inevitable. Magic sculpture garden -- "Space is hard" -- "The eagle has landed" -- Mars -- "The great inversion" -- Again, the moon. | |
| 520 | 0 | |a Traces the historic quest to rekindle the human exploration of space as navigated by billionaire entrepreneurs, sharing insights into how professional rivalry and Silicon Valley innovations are lowering the cost of space travel and exceeding the achievements of NASA. | |
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