The Space Business

From Hotels in Orbit to Mining the Moon: How Private Enterprise is Transforming Space

The Space Business
Andrew May
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Paperback
h198 x 129mm - 176pg
7 Oct 2021 UK
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9781785787454
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Dreams, schemes and opportunity as space opens for tourism and commerce. Twentieth century space exploration may have belonged to state-funded giants such as NASA, but there is a parallel history which has set the template for the future. 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, commercialisation 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, or asteroids for precious metals. Science writer Andrew May takes an entertaining, in-depth look at the triumphs and heroic failures of our quixotic quest to commercialise the final frontier.
Andrew May is a freelance writer and science consultant. The Space Business is his fourth book in the Hot Science series, following Destination Mars, Cosmic Impact, and Astrobiology. He lives in Somerset.
Status: No local stock, title imported to order
ISBN-13: 9781785787454
Published: 7 Oct 2021
Published In: United Kingdom
Imprint: Icon Books
Publisher: Icon Books
Format: Paperback
Height: 198mm
Width: 129mm
Pages: 176

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