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When The Heavens Went On Sale - The Misfits and Geniuses Racing to Put Space Within Reach (Paperback) Loot Price: R351
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When The Heavens Went On Sale - The Misfits and Geniuses Racing to Put Space Within Reach (Paperback): Ashlee Vance

When The Heavens Went On Sale - The Misfits and Geniuses Racing to Put Space Within Reach (Paperback)

Ashlee Vance

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A momentous look at the private companies driving the revolutionary new space race.

In 2008, Elon Musk's SpaceX became the first private company to build a low-cost rocket that could reach orbit. Suddenly Silicon Valley, not NASA, was the epicentre of the new Space Age.

Ashlee Vance follows four pioneering companies - Astra, Firefly, Planet Labs and Rocket Lab - as they race to control access to outer space. While the space tourism ambitions of billionaires such as Bezos and Branson make headlines, these under-the-radar companies are striving to monetise Earth's lower orbit; to connect, analyse and monitor everything on Earth.

With unprecedented access to private company headquarters, labs and top-secret launch locations - from the US to New Zealand, Ukraine to India - Vance presents a gripping account of private jets, communes, gun-toting bodyguards, drugs, espionage investigations and multimillionaires guzzling booze as their fortunes disappear.

This is the most pressing and controversial technology story of our time. Welcome to the new Wild West above the clouds.

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Imprint: W.H.Allen & Co Ltd
Country of origin: United Kingdom
Release date: May 2023
Authors: Ashlee Vance
Dimensions: 234 x 154 x 42mm (L x W x T)
Format: Paperback - Trade
Pages: 528
ISBN-13: 978-0-7535-5777-8
Categories: Books > Language & Literature > Biography & autobiography > Science, technology & engineering
Books > Business & Economics > Business & management > Ownership & organization of enterprises > Entrepreneurship
Books > Professional & Technical > Other technologies > Space science > Astronautics
Books > Biography > Science, technology & engineering
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LSN: 0-7535-5777-0
Barcode: 9780753557778

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