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When the heavens went on sale : the misfits and geniuses racing to put space within reach

text When the heavens went on sale : the misfits and geniuses racing to put space within reach

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 ... Read more
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 t... Read more
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513 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (chiefly color), map ; 24 cm
Publisher
Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2023

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