{"product_id":"space-pirates-how-i-rebooted-nasa-and-helped-bezos-branson-and-musk-launch-the-new-space-age-9781635767704","title":"Space Pirates: How I Rebooted NASA and Helped Bezos, Branson, and Musk Launch the New Space Age","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cblockquote\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003eLori Garver, a former NASA official, provides a behind-the-scenes look at the decades-long struggles between space bureaucrats and billionaires. Her book \"Escaping Gravity\" reveals how a group of \"space pirates\" transformed NASA and paved the way for the new space age, overcoming political patronage and bureaucracy. \u003c\/blockquote\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFormat\u003c\/strong\u003e: Hardback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eLength\u003c\/strong\u003e: 304 pages\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePublication date\u003c\/strong\u003e: 07 July 2022\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePublisher\u003c\/strong\u003e: EverAfter Romance\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEscaping Gravity is former NASA Deputy Administrator Lori Garver's firsthand account of how a handful of revolutionaries overcame the political patronage and bureaucracy that threatened the space agency.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe success of Elon Musk's SpaceX, Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin, Richard Branson's Virgin Galactic, and countless other commercial space efforts were preceded by decades of work by a group of people Garver calls \"space pirates.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTheir quest to transform NASA put Garver in the crosshairs of Congress, the aerospace industry, and hero-astronauts trying to protect their own profits and mythology within a system that had held power since the 1950s.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAs the head of the NASA transition team for President-elect Barack Obama and second-in-command of the agency, Garver drove policies and funding that enabled commercial competition just as the capabilities and resources of the private sector began to mature.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eShe was determined to deliver more valuable programs, which required breaking the self-interested space-industrial cycle that, like the military, preferred to spend billions of taxpayer dollars on programs aimed to sustain jobs and contracts in key congressional districts.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe result: more efficiency and greater progress.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIncluding insider NASA conversations and insights on how the US space industry has been transformed.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWeight\u003c\/strong\u003e: 572g\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eDimension\u003c\/strong\u003e: 163 x 235 x 28 (mm)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eISBN-13\u003c\/strong\u003e: 9781635767704\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Lori Garver","offers":[{"title":"Hardback","offer_id":44098894266618,"sku":"9781635767704","price":16.41,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0522\/4297\/2845\/products\/1659089107255_book.jpg?v=1659343750","url":"https:\/\/shulphink.com\/products\/space-pirates-how-i-rebooted-nasa-and-helped-bezos-branson-and-musk-launch-the-new-space-age-9781635767704","provider":"Shulph Ink","version":"1.0","type":"link"}