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- Book Title
- Liftoff : Elon Musk and the Desperate Early Days That Launched Spacex
- Publication Name
- Liftoff
- Title
- Liftoff
- Subtitle
- The Desperate Early Days of SpaceX, and the Launching of a New Er
- Format
- Uk-B Format Paperback
- ISBN-10
- 0062979981
- EAN
- 9780062979988
- ISBN
- 9780062979988
- Publisher
- HarperCollins
- Genre
- Technology & Engineering, Transportation, Science, Business & Economics
- Topic
- Leadership, Entrepreneurship, Inventions, Space Science, Aviation / Commercial, New Business Enterprises, History
- Release Year
- 2023
- Release Date
- 03/01/2023
- Language
- English
- Country/Region of Manufacture
- US
- Item Length
- 8in
- Publication Year
- 2023
- Item Height
- 0.7in
- Item Width
- 5.3in
- Item Weight
- 8.6 Oz
- Number of Pages
- 288 Pages
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Today, SpaceX boasts the largest constellation of commercial satellites in orbit, has pioneered reusable rockets, and in 2020 became the first private company to launch human beings into orbit. Half a century after the space race, it is private companies, led by SpaceX, that are standing alongside NASA in pushing forward into the cosmos and laying the foundation for our exploration of other worlds, But before it became one of the most powerful players in the aerospace industry, SpaceX was a fledgling start-up, scrambling to develop a single workable rocket before the money ran dry. Focusing on the company's first four launches of the Falcon 1 rocket, Liftoff charts the bumpy journey from scrappy underdog to aerospace pioneer. Eric Berger has reported on SpaceX for more than a decade, enjoying unparalleled journalistic access to the company's inner workings. Liftoff is the culmination of these efforts, drawing upon exclusive interviews with dozens of former and current engineers, designers, mechanics, and executives, including Elon Musk. The enigmatic Musk, who founded the company with the dream of one day settling Mars, is the fuel that propels the book, with his daring vision for the future of space. Filled with never-before-told stories of SpaceX's turbulent beginning, Liftoff is a saga of cosmic proportions.
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Publisher
HarperCollins
ISBN-10
0062979981
ISBN-13
9780062979988
eBay Product ID (ePID)
22057244763
Product Key Features
Book Title
Liftoff : Elon Musk and the Desperate Early Days That Launched Spacex
Format
Uk-B Format Paperback
Language
English
Topic
Leadership, Entrepreneurship, Inventions, Space Science, Aviation / Commercial, New Business Enterprises, History
Publication Year
2023
Genre
Technology & Engineering, Transportation, Science, Business & Economics
Number of Pages
288 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
8in
Item Height
0.7in
Item Width
5.3in
Item Weight
8.6 Oz
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Eric Berger has followed the exploits of SpaceX and its founder, Elon Musk, from its very early days. In Liftoff, Eric relates the many personal accounts collected in one-on-one interviews with Musk and many of his key leaders and associates. He chronicles the frenetic pace of Falcon 1 development and the toll it took on many of the early employees. This is a book that will hold your rapt attention from start to finish., Liftoff reads like something out of the golden age of Science Fiction but this isn't a novel by Robert Heinlein or Arthur C. Clarke. This is the true, astounding story of the men and women who spun those sci-fi dreams into reality., This might be the best space book I've ever read. Liftoff will prove to be a defining story not only for the commercial space industry, but for the Space Age writ large, and there's no one better than Eric Berger to tell it., Compelling. ... Great reading. ... An essential, unofficial reference test for what to do (and not do) as space flight goes commercial. ... Fascinating., Does a fine job of telling the white-knuckle story of how SpaceX was created in 2002 and came close to collapse several times., Thrilling. ... There is a self-assured momentum about the narrative, even as it describes infuriating setbacks and strokes of incredible luck., Eric Berger brings to life the passion and sacrifice of the early SpaceX team as they navigated through countless obstacles toward unlikely success. The skillfully described technical details, paired with a candid glimpse into individual personalities, makes Liftoff a must read for space enthusiasts and novices alike., The elegant brilliance of the engineering that allows today's space rockets to land themselves back on earth--or at sea--right way up, and on target to the inch, is all the doing of the teams assembled by Elon Musk--and the story of how he did it, and how for sure he will get us to Mars whether we like it or not, is told in appropriately stellar fashion by Eric Berger in a book that held me captive, in earth orbit, from prologue to epilogue, countdown to splashdown., [Berger] depicts race-against-the-clock crises as fast-paced as a thriller, with moments reminiscent of Apollo 13 or The Martian. ... An exciting and insightful read., Page-turning. ... Eric Berger writes with the kind of hard-won insider authority that only comes through covering the nuts and bolts of the commercial space industry for the past twenty years.
Dewey Decimal
629.40973
Intended Audience
Trade
Dewey Edition
23
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