Space is closer: How Elon Musk and SpaceX engineers put spaceflight on stream
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Space is closer: How Elon Musk and SpaceX engineers put spaceflight on stream
14.99 €
This book is about a company that redefined space exploration. It's about people who, with no room for error, achieved the impossible. And it's about a man whose ideas simultaneously inspire and irritate, yet invariably move the world forward.
Twenty years ago, SpaceX was a small startup, incapable of launching even a single rocket. Today, it's a corporation that sends over a hundred missions into space annually, a global leader and the main accelerator of the industry's technological revolution. How was this possible? The author spent dozens of hours interviewing SpaceX engineers, managers, and veterans—people who launched Falcon 1 from Kwajalein Atoll, survived Falcon 9 crashes, built Dragon, debated, failed, and tried again—until they created the world's first fully recoverable rocket. Musk is at the center of this story. He demands the impossible, acts quickly, without committees or endless meetings, makes high-profile mistakes, but it was his vision that shaped SpaceX as we know it. This book is about breakthroughs that first seemed absurd, then unachievable, and then became industry standards. It's about how SpaceX managed to maintain its startup audacity while becoming a giant. And it's about why the most exciting things in space are yet to come.
Twenty years ago, SpaceX was a small startup, incapable of launching even a single rocket. Today, it's a corporation that sends over a hundred missions into space annually, a global leader and the main accelerator of the industry's technological revolution. How was this possible? The author spent dozens of hours interviewing SpaceX engineers, managers, and veterans—people who launched Falcon 1 from Kwajalein Atoll, survived Falcon 9 crashes, built Dragon, debated, failed, and tried again—until they created the world's first fully recoverable rocket. Musk is at the center of this story. He demands the impossible, acts quickly, without committees or endless meetings, makes high-profile mistakes, but it was his vision that shaped SpaceX as we know it. This book is about breakthroughs that first seemed absurd, then unachievable, and then became industry standards. It's about how SpaceX managed to maintain its startup audacity while becoming a giant. And it's about why the most exciting things in space are yet to come.
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