{"product_id":"rocket-dreams-christian-davenport","title":"Rocket Dreams (Christian Davenport)","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e'A thrilling account' - Walter Isaacson\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eMusk versus Bezos. \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eChina versus the United States. \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe government versus the private sector. \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eWelcome to the rivalries and alliances defining the New Space Age. \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eAt stake? Billions of dollars, national prestige, and a place in the history books.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA fleet of powerful new rockets is poised to take humans into the cosmos more than ever before. A lunar land rush has sparked a geopolitical competition among nations. And the world's two richest men have engaged in escalating brinkmanship, as NASA and the US government embraces Silicon Valley innovation to jump-start the nation's ambitions.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSpace has entered a golden age, and this is just the beginning. In this gripping work, award-winning \u003ci\u003eWashington Post \u003c\/i\u003ewriter Christian Davenport chronicles the mad scramble to shape humanity's off-planet future. He takes readers behind the scenes at NASA and the Pentagon as China's aggressive moon mining plans raise alarms, onto the sprawling Cape Canaveral factory where Blue Origin is working toward Amazon-style lunar deliveries, and onto SpaceX launch pads as Musk's engineers log 100-hour weeks - leaving veteran astronauts marvelling that they're now operating 'flying iPhones.'\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhat will happen as human ambition outpaces governmental regulation? Which country will win the race back to the moon? Was Donald Trump's much-derided creation of the Space Force a surprising act of foresight, and will the US finally make a real push to the moon and eventually toward Mars?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMasterfully paced, rigorously reported and vividly told, \u003ci\u003eRocket Dreams\u003c\/i\u003e offers a riveting, fly-on-the-wall account of the grit-fuelled global battle to push humankind further into the cosmos -revealing that the science fiction dreams of the last century may soon become our reality.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003ch4\u003eAutorenportrait\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eChristian Davenport\u003c\/b\u003e is a staff writer at \u003ci\u003eThe Washington Post\u003c\/i\u003e covering NASA and the space industry. He joined in 2000 and was on a team that won the Peabody award in 2010 for its work on veterans with Traumatic Brain Injury and has been on reporting teams that were finalists for the Pulitzer Prize three times. He is the author of two other books, \u003ci\u003eThe Space Barons\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eAs You Were\u003c\/i\u003e. A frequent commentator on television and radio, he was a producer of \u003ci\u003eSpace: The Private Frontier\u003c\/i\u003e, a two-hour documentary that aired on the Discovery and Science channels, and a producer and co-host of \u003ci\u003eSpace Launch Live\u003c\/i\u003e, the network's live broadcast of SpaceX's first crewed mission, which won an Emmy award in 2021 and was the highest rated, non-primetime telecast in Discovery's history. He has also served as a Public Policy Scholar at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars and a fellow at the Alicia Patterson Foundation. A graduate of Colby College, he lives in Washington, D.C. with his wife and three children.\u003c\/div\u003e\u003ch4\u003eWeitere Angaben\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eBuch (Paperback), Englisch, 384 Seiten\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Weltbild.ch: Bücher \u0026 Outlet","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":65852823601501,"sku":"K097068003","price":18.7,"currency_code":"CHF","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0911\/8915\/0045\/files\/9706800300001A.jpg?v=1788820211","url":"https:\/\/weltbild.ch\/products\/rocket-dreams-christian-davenport","provider":"Weltbild.ch Bücher \u0026 Outlet","version":"1.0","type":"link"}