When The Heavens Went On Sale: The Misfits And Geniuses Racing To Put Space Within Reach

When the Heavens Went on Sale: The Misfits and Geniuses Racing to Put Space Within Reach

Product Description A momentous look at the private companies driving a revolutionary new economy in space, from the New York Times bestselling author of Elon Musk 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 or nation states, 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