| Edition |
First edition. |
| Physical Description |
513 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : color illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Note |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Summary |
"With the launch of the Falcon 1 rocket in 2008, Elon Musk's SpaceX became the first private company to build a low-cost rocket that could reach orbit. And that milestone carried major implications: Silicon Valley, not NASA, was suddenly cemented as the epicenter of the new Space Age. Start-ups and the wealthy investors behind them began to realize that the universe-ungoverned and infinite-was open for business. Welcome to the wild west of aerospace engineering."-- Provided by publisher. |
| Contents |
Prologue: a shared hallucination -- The great computer in the sky. When doves fly ; Space force ; Welcome, Lord Vader ; The rainbow mansion ; Phoning home ; The birth of a planet ; The great computer in the sky -- The Peter Beck project. Big, if true ; A boy and his shed ; You just stick it between your legs and pray ; I expected more from you, America ; "You fucking beauty!" ; The military is not so bad ; Enter electron ; You've got our attention -- Ad astra. Let's make a lot of fucking rockets ; Chris Kemp on Chris Kemp, spring 2017 ; The grind ; Party like you mean it ; Your friendly neighborhood fog monster ; Not-so-stealth space ; Northern exposure ; Rocket 2 ; It's a job ; The reset button ; Cash on fire ; It makes sense, right? -- The maddest max. On passion ; God told me to do it ; Full attack ; These rockets: they're expensive ; Limits ; Flameout -- Epilogue. |
| Subject |
Rockets (Aeronautics) -- Research -- Popular works.
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Space tourism.
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Outer space -- Civilian use.
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Privatization.
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