The Space Barons: Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, and the Quest to Colonize the Cosmos

I'm a Newspace fanboy and this book summarizes the dawn of the new era in space industry very well. It has mainly covered the story of Space X, Virgin Galactic and Blue Origin.If such topic interests you, then you are going to enjoy reading this book as it written by a journalist who works with The Washington Post.5 out of 5 stars.I bought paperback, kindle edition as well as audiobook of it. If you have kindle, then I would suggest you to just buy the Kindle edition as the fonts in the paperback edition are quite small.All you cosmically curious people can find me on insta- champreads

After the Space x launch? A winner book for the kids on your grad list

Brilliant book telling the true story which is far from over and indeed is still at the beginning of the new rush to colonise the stars. It tells of the competition between the various players and how they are achieving their goals in rather different ways and through different routes. SpaceX getting funding through sales of satellite launches and NASA contracts while Blue Origin gets funding at the present time through sales of Amazon Stock. At the end of the day though they all complement each other. Musk has his sights on Mars while Bezos is following the route laid out by the teachings of the Princeton physicist Gerard O' Neill in his book the High Frontier. Is there room for both and the other players such as Sir Richard Branson and his Virgin Empire. Space is a big place, I'd say there is. Musk can do the exploring while Bezos can follow up with the millions of settlers who will certainly follow just like the settlers who ventured first across the atlantic from Europe then in Wagon trains heading west to California. Nobody knew then what riches were to be had and what was to happen in the future, all that they were going to find a new life. The same is going to happen now with the settlement of the Sky! People don't actually realise this is going to happen, but the factories are being built and the designs finalised for the first of the vehicles to begin this next step in the evolution of humanity into the cosmos.

If anything is going to define the 21st century, it's probably the rise of the commercial human space sector. We're still in the early stages, and none of the titular Space Barons have done it yet, but commercial-fueled manned space operations are coming, and you have a few colorful personalities to thank for that. This book is a quick summary of the short history of the rise of the space. Focusing less on the personalities (unlike, say, Ashlee Vance's Musk bio) and more on the enterprises, it's a good and fast enough read. A bigger and more detailed book would have earned 5 stars, I think.I needed it to remember that Paul Allen is still interested in space. Even if no one hears much about him anymore.

As advertised, very biographical less industrial.