Ebook: The space barons Jeff Bezos, Elon Musk, and the quest to colonize the cosmos
Author: Blue Origin, SpaceX, Bezos Jeffrey, Davenport Christian, Musk Elon
- Tags: Aerospace engineers, Aerospace engineers--United States, Aerospace industries, Aerospace industries--United States, Blue Origen (Firm), Industrialists, Industrialists--United States, Luftfahrtindustrie, Raumfahrt, Raumfahrtprogramm, Raumflug, Space industrialization, Space industrialization--United States, Unternehmer, Biographies, Bezos Jeffrey -- 1964-, Musk Elon -- 1971-, Bezos Jeffrey, Musk Elon, SpaceX (Firm), SpaceX, Blue Origin, Industrialists -- United States -- Biography, Aerospace engineers -- United Sta
- Year: 2018
- Publisher: PublicAffairs
- City: Outer space;United States
- Edition: First edition
- Language: English
- epub
The Space Barons is the story of a group of billionaire entrepreneurs who are pouring their fortunes into the epic resurrection of the American space program. Nearly a half-century after Neil Armstrong walked on the moon, these Space Barons-most notably Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos, along with Richard Branson and Paul Allen-are using Silicon Valley-style innovation to dramatically lower the cost of space travel, and send humans even further than NASA has gone. These entrepreneurs have founded some of the biggest brands in the world-Amazon, Microsoft, Virgin, Tesla, PayPal-and upended industry after industry. Now they are pursuing the biggest disruption of all: space.
Based on years of reporting and exclusive interviews with all four billionaires, this authoritative...