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Rocket dreams : Musk, Bezos, and the inside story of the new, trillion-dollar space race / Christian Davenport.
"A riveting, fly-on-the-wall account of the New Space Age, chronicling Elon Musk's dominant SpaceX, Jeff Bezos's resurgent Blue Origin, and the high-stakes, grit-fueled global battle to push humankind further into the cosmos -- from an Emmy and Peabody award-winning Washington Post reporter"-- Provided by publisher.
Record details
- ISBN: 9780593594117 (hardcover)
- Physical Description: 371 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : colour illustrations ; 25 cm
- Edition: First edition.
- Publisher: New York : Crown Currency, [2025]
- Copyright: ©2025
Content descriptions
| Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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| Subject: | Blue Origin (Firm) SpaceX (Firm) Manned space flight. Space flights. Outer space > Civilian use > United States. Outer space > Exploration > United States. |
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- 1 of 1 copy available at Tsuga Consortium.
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- 0 current holds with 1 total copy.
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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| Cookstown Branch | 338.76294092273 Dav | 31681010433886 | NONFIC | Available | - |
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Offers a riveting, fly-on-the-wall account of the grit-fueled global battle to push humankind further into the cosmosârevealing that the science fiction dreams of the last century may soon become our reality. - Baker & Taylor
"A riveting, fly-on-the-wall account of the New Space Age, chronicling Elon Musk's dominant SpaceX, Jeff Bezos's resurgent Blue Origin, and the high-stakes, grit-fueled global battle to push humankind further into the cosmos-from an Emmy and Peabody award-winning Washington Post reporter"-- Provided by publisher. - Random House, Inc.
Musk versus Bezos.
China versus the United States.
The government versus the private sector.
Welcome to the rivalries and alliances defining the New Space Age.
At stake? Billions of dollars, national prestige, and a place in the history books.
Moon landings and space walks once captivated the publicâs attention. But, in recent decades, the U.S. space enterprise has felt moribund. Now, thatâs 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 worldâs two richest men have engaged in escalating brinkmanship, as NASA and the U.S. government embraces Silicon Valley innovation to jump-start the nationâs 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 humanityâs off-planet future. He takes readers behind the scenes at NASA and the Pentagon as Chinaâs 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 Muskâs engineers log 100-hour weeksâleaving veteran astronauts marveling that theyâre now operating âflying iPhones.â Â
What will happen as human ambition outpaces governmental regulation? Which country will win the race back to the moon? Was Donald Trumpâs 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 cosmosârevealing that the science fiction dreams of the last century may soon become our reality.
