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Author Fernholz, Tim, author.

Title Rocket billionaires : Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, and the new space race / Tim Fernholz.

Publication Info. Boston : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2018.
©2018

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Location Call No. Status
 Cheshire Public Library - Adult Department Lower Level  338.7629 FERNHOLZ    Check Shelf
 East Hartford, Raymond Library - Adult Department  338.76 FERNHOLZ    Check Shelf
 New Britain, Main Library - Non Fiction  338.762 FER    Check Shelf
Description xviii, 281 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 24 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 258-269) and index.
Contents Introduction -- Space race -- 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.
Subject Musk, Elon.
Bezos, Jeffrey.
Space industrialization -- United States.
Outer space -- Civilian use -- United States.
Astronautics -- United States.
Other Form: Online version: Fernholz, Tim, author. Rocket billionaires Boston : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, [2018] 9781328663061 (DLC) 2018001192
ISBN 9781328662231 hardcover
1328662233 hardcover
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