SpaceX: Elon Musk and the Final Frontier
By Brad Bergan
I received a free copy of SpaceX: Elon Musk and the Final Frontier from the publisher in exchange for my honest opinion.
Explore the fascinating past, present, and possible future of Elon Musk’s SpaceX in the first comprehensive photographic history of the company.
The private space industry’s consensus leader, SpaceX, headed by controversial billionaire Elon Musk, is worth an estimated $187 billion today in 2023. And SpaceX is taking on more roles—flying cargo, supplies, and astronauts to outer space, and even playing a central role as rocket supplier to NASA’s Artemis moon mission. Elon Musk and the Final Frontier tells the story with the modern prose of science journalist and editor Brad Bergan and 200+ stunning photographs of the spacecraft, key players, and facilities in California, Texas, and Florida.
In this illustrated history, Discover – and Bloomberg -cited author Brad Bergan examines every detail surrounding SpaceX’s efforts to accelerate humankind’s exploration and understanding of outer space,
Bergan also covers SpaceX in the headlines, from space junk and test launches to SpaceX’s part in the collaborative effort to reinforce Ukraine’s digital infrastructure against Russia’s military onslaught. While examining the business, the missions, and the hardware , Bergan looks at the importance of design-forward equipment from marketing perspectives and, finally, the what ultimately is “in it” for 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 future dominion in deep space .
Summary from Goodreads.
Are you interested in the latest giant in the space industry that is SpaceX? This coffee table book is here to help you understand how SpaceX became the powerhouse in the space industry that it has become, as well as detailing how Elon Musk came to own it.
SpaceX is split into 7 different chapters: The Unfair Advantage; The Changing Face of Space Travel; Enter SpaceX; The Space Barons; SpaceX Takes Center Stage in Space Race 2.0; The Moon, Mars and Beyond; and SpaceX After Musk. These chapters are all chronological in order making it easy to go backwards in time to a specific point of interest. I cannot say which part of this book was my favourite since this is an ongoing story, and I found it intriguing as to how Musk came to be the individual that he is today.
This book has more writing than usual for this style of book, but it is necessary for the amount of information that has to be conveyed to you. The photos and drawings that were selected were all very nice, I just wish that there were more of them!
My Dad would absolutely love this book, and I would enjoy having this around the house as well.
4/5
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