Description
Book SynopsisSpace Race 2.0 is the only authoritative photographic history of the efforts of private companies—often alongside NASA—to accelerate humankind’s exploration and understanding of the final frontier. The private space sector is growing tremendously. The industry’s consensus leader,
SpaceX, headed by outspoken billionaire
Elon Musk, is today worth an estimated $74 billion. And SpaceX and its chief competitors, Blue Origin and Virgin Galactic, are taking on more roles—flying cargo, supplies, and astronauts to outer space.
Space Race 2.0 tells their story with
expertly written text by science journalist Brad Bergan and
stunning photography of the spacecraft,
key players,
and facilities in California, Texas, and Florida.
In the 1950s and ’60s, the first Space Race pitted two political ideologies against one another: either Communism or Capitalism would prove superior. Ul
Table of ContentsIntroduction
Elon Musk, Deep Time, and the Idealized Legacy
Richard Branson. Space Knight
Jeff Bezos and the Empire of Dreams
The Long Road to Reusability
Sustainability on Cosmic Scales
The Race Itself
Trouble on the Moon and Mars- and Earth
The Future: Conflicting Realities
