Even before Apollo 11 landed on the Moon, private companies were exploiting space via communication satellites—a sector that is seeing exponential growth in the internet age. In human spaceflight, too, commercialization is making itself felt. Billionaire entrepreneurs Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, and Richard Branson have long trumpeted plans to make space travel a possibility for ordinary people, and those ideas are inching ever closer to reality. At the same time, other companies plan to mine the Moon for helium-3 and asteroids for precious metals. Popular-science writer Andrew May takes an entertaining, in-depth look at the triumphs and heroic failures of our quixotic quest to commercialize the final frontier.
Eyes in the Sky : Space Telescopes from Hubble to Webb
Astrobiology : The Search for Life Elsewhere in the Universe
The Space Business : From Hotels in Orbit to Mining the Moon
Destination Mars : The Story of our Quest to Conquer the Red Planet
Cosmic Impact : Understanding the Threat to Earth from Asteroids and Comets
The Other Trail of Tears : The Removal of the Ohio Indians
A Hell of a Storm : The Battle for Kansas, the End of Compromise, and the Coming of the Civil War
The Restless Republic : Britain without a Crown
Seeing Red : Indigenous Land, American Expansion, and the Political Economy of Plunder in North America
The Long Game : China's Grand Strategy to Displace American Order
The Triumph of William McKinley : Why the Election of 1896 Still Matters
The Long Surrender
The Space Business: From Hotels in Orbit to Mining the Moon
The Space Business: From Hotels in Orbit to Mining the Moon
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Eyes in the Sky : Space Telescopes from Hubble to Webb
Astrobiology : The Search for Life Elsewhere in the Universe
The Space Business : From Hotels in Orbit to Mining the Moon
Destination Mars : The Story of our Quest to Conquer the Red Planet
Cosmic Impact : Understanding the Threat to Earth from Asteroids and Comets
The Other Trail of Tears : The Removal of the Ohio Indians
A Hell of a Storm : The Battle for Kansas, the End of Compromise, and the Coming of the Civil War
The Restless Republic : Britain without a Crown
Seeing Red : Indigenous Land, American Expansion, and the Political Economy of Plunder in North America
The Long Game : China's Grand Strategy to Displace American Order
The Triumph of William McKinley : Why the Election of 1896 Still Matters
The Long Surrender
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Even before Apollo 11 landed on the Moon, private companies were exploiting space via communication satellites—a sector that is seeing exponential growth in the internet age. In human spaceflight, too, commercialization is making itself felt. Billionaire entrepreneurs Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, and Richard Branson have long trumpeted plans to make space travel a possibility for ordinary people, and those ideas are inching ever closer to reality. At the same time, other companies plan to mine the Moon for helium-3 and asteroids for precious metals. Popular-science writer Andrew May takes an entertaining, in-depth look at the triumphs and heroic failures of our quixotic quest to commercialize the final frontier.
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