October 2010
Beginner
176 pages
8h 7m
English
Rocket Men
Mavericks of the private space industry.

FINAL FRONTIERSMEN: (Left to right) Dave Masten, John Carmack, Tim Pickens, Tim Bendel, Paul J. Breed, and Jeff Greason.
It’s the best of times and the worst of times for space enthusiasts.
Following the imminent retirement of the space shuttle, the United States will lose its manned orbital capability. President Obama cancelled the Constellation program, which was supposed to take us back to the moon. An astonishing $9 billion was spent on Constellation, and canceling it will cost another $2.5 billion.
Yet amid this gloom and doom, a rapidly shifting mosaic of startups is ...
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