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Rocket Dreams: Those magnificent billionaires and their flying machines
According to the journalist Christian Davenport's latest dispatch from the high-tech space race, Rocket Dreams, Bezos also posed a question: "How would we go about this if NASA did not exist?"
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The space race between Bezos and Musk often does not feel like an adventure, or an elevation of the human spirit. In Davenport’s straightforward, journalistic telling, it is more like a cynical quest for likes and power.
ROCKET DREAMS: Musk, Bezos, and the Inside Story of the New, Trillion-Dollar Space Race
by Christian Davenport,
Published by Crown
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371 pages, $32
REBECCA BOYLE
When the rocket company Blue Origin didn’t get a lunar lander contract with NASA in April 2021, its founder, Jeff Bezos, was fuming. Blue Origin had been working for years on a prototype lander, hoping to wrest funding — and some fame — from Elon Musk’s SpaceX, by then a trusted partner to the American space agency. Just four months into the
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