SpaceX

The private space industry's consensus leader, SpaceX, headed by controversial billionaire Elon Musk, is worth an estimated $187 billion today in 2023. And SpaceX is taking on more roles?flying cargo, supplies, and astronauts to outer space, and even playing a central role as rocket supplier to NASA's Artemis moon mission. This book tells the story with the modern prose of science journalist and editor Brad Bergan and 200+ stunning photographs of the spacecraft, key players, and facilities in California, Texas, and Florida.

List of contents

Preface: Fukuyama’s Diagnosis, and Where Space Goes from Here
1 The Unfair Advantage
2 The Changing Face of Space Travel
3 Enter SpaceX
4 The Space Barons
5 SpaceX Takes Center Stage in Space Race 2.0
6 The Moon, Mars, and Beyond
7 SpaceX After Musk
Acknowledgments
Image Credits
Index
 

About the author

Brad Bergan is a former executive editor at Immutable Holdings and a former senior editor at Interesting Engineering and Futurism, specializing in space, finance, and crypto. His words have appeared in or on VICE, 3:AM Magazine, The World Economic Forum, the National Book Critics Circle, and elsewhere. With investigative journalism cited in Bloomberg, Discover, and NBC News, and several appearances on national radio, he holds degrees in philosophy and English from the University of Iowa, and studied graduate-level creative writing at The New School. He lives in New York.

Summary

With authoritative text and stunning photography, SpaceX: Elon Musk and the Final Frontier provides insight into the remarkable world of private space exploration from 2002 through today and beyond.

Product details

• Authors: Brad Bergan
• Publisher: Frances Lincoln
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 04.04.2024
• EAN: 9780760384015
• ISBN: 978-0-7603-8401-5
• Dimensions: 242 mm x 275 mm x 17 mm
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Technology > Aviation and space engineering; BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Science & Technology, space exploration, Space Science, Biography: science, technology & medicine, Biography: science, technology and medicine, Astronomical observation: observatories, equipment & methods, SCIENCE / Space Science / Astronomy, SCIENCE / Space Science / Space Exploration