| Description |
1 online resource |
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text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Introduction -- Space race 2.0 -- The rocket-industrial complex -- The rocket monopoly -- The Internet guy -- Friday afternoon space club -- The tyranny of the rocket -- Never a straight answer -- A method of reaching extreme altitudes -- Test as we fly -- Change versus more of the same -- Capture the flag -- Space race 2.0 -- Reduce, reuse, recycle -- Pushing the envelope -- Rocket billionaires -- Beyond earth orbit -- Epilogue: a spacefaring civilization. |
| Access |
Concurrent user level: 1 user |
| Summary |
A dramatic business narrative about the new ""race for space, "" focusing on Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, and the other major players and corporations who are all desperately competing to either colonize the moon, send civilians into space, or be the first to land a space ship (or human being) on the surface of Mars. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost All EBSCO eBooks |
| Provenance |
Gift of Paul and Mary Haas. |
| Subject |
Musk, Elon.
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Musk, Elon. |
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Bezos, Jeffrey.
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Bezos, Jeffrey. |
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Space industrialization -- United States.
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Space industrialization. |
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United States. |
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Outer space -- Civilian use -- United States.
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Outer space. |
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Astronautics -- United States.
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Astronautics. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Fernholz, Tim. Rocket billionaires. Boston : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, [2018] 9781328662231 (DLC) 2017061481 |
| ISBN |
9781328663061 (electronic book) |
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132866306X (electronic book) |
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9781328662231 (hardcover) |
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