Christian Davenport

Gebundenes Buch

Rocket Dreams

Musk, Bezos and the Trillion-Dollar Space Race

Beschreibung

A riveting, fly-on-the-wall account of the New Space Age, chronicling Elon Musk's dominant SpaceX, Jeff Bezos's resurgent Blue Origin, and the high-stakes, grit-fuelled global battle to push humankind further into the cosmos.

Autor

Christian Davenport is a staff writer at The Washington Post covering NASA and the space industry. He joined in 2000 and was on a team that won the Peabody award in 2010 for its work on veterans with Traumatic Brain Injury and has been on reporting teams that were finalists for the Pulitzer Prize three times. He is the author of two other books, The Space Barons and As You Were. A frequent commentator on television and radio, he was a producer of Space: The Private Frontier, a two-hour documentary that aired on the Discovery and Science channels, and a producer and co-host of Space Launch Live, the network's live broadcast of SpaceX's first crewed mission, which won an Emmy award in 2021 and was the highest rated, non-primetime telecast in Discovery's history. He has also served as a Public Policy Scholar at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars and a fellow at the Alicia Patterson Foundation. A graduate of Colby College, he lives in Washington, D.C. with his wife and three children.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: John Blake Publishing Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 384
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. September 2025
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 242mm x 165mm x 36mm
• Gewicht: 602g
• ISBN-13: 9781789467147
• ISBN-10: 1789467144
• Artikelnr.: 74171920