SpaceX: Elon Musk and the Final Frontier

SpaceX, led by Elon Musk, is a private space industry leader worth $187 billion in 2023, taking on roles in cargo, supplies, astronauts, and moon missions. SpaceX: Elon Musk and the Final Frontier explores the company's history, present, and future with 200 stunning photographs. It covers the business of private space exploration, rivals, missions, and controversial headlines. Bergan also examines the importance of design-forward equipment and the endgame of SpaceX's dominion in deep space.

Format: Hardback
Length: 176 pages
Publication date: 13 June 2024
Publisher: Quarto Publishing Group USA Inc

SpaceX, the private space industry's consensus leader, is worth an estimated $187 billion in 2023 and is taking on more roles, flying cargo, supplies, and astronauts to outer space and playing a central role as rocket supplier to NASA's Artemis moon mission. In SpaceX: Elon Musk and the Final Frontier, science journalist and editor Brad Bergan tells the story of SpaceX with words and 200+ stunning photographs of the spacecraft, key players, and facilities in California, Texas, and Florida. Bergan examines every detail surrounding SpaceX's efforts to accelerate humankind's exploration and understanding of outer space, including the personal and private forces that led Musk to form the company, the business of private space exploration, including contracts with other private firms and NASA, chief rivals, including Blue Origin, founded by Amazon's Jeff Bezos, SpaceX roles in missions to the Moon, Mars, and beyond, and some of SpaceX's controversial headlines, from space junk to failed test launches and the Starlink satellite constellation. While examining the business, the missions, and the hardware, Bergan looks at the importance of design-forward equipment and, finally, the endgame: what ultimately is "in it" for SpaceX? SpaceX: Elon Musk and the Final Frontier is the ultimate visual look at a groundbreaking company, with an eye toward its relatively short past and a critical eye toward its possible dominion in deep space.

Weight: 1062g
Dimension: 243 x 274 x 20 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9780760384015