Space 2.0, Rod Pyle
Space 2.0, Rod Pyle
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Space 2.0
How Private Spaceflight, a Resurgent NASA, and International Partners are Creating a New Space Age

Author: Rod Pyle, Buzz Aldrin

Narrator: Jack de Golia

Unabridged: 8 hr 48 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 02/26/2019

Synopsis

No longer the exclusive domain of government entities such as NASA and other national agencies, space exploration is rapidly becoming privatized, with entrepreneurial startups building huge rocket boosters, satellites, rocket engines, asteroid probes, prospecting craft, and even commercial lunar cargo landers to open this new frontier. Research into ever more sophisticated propulsion and life support systems will soon enable the journey to Mars and destinations deeper in our solar system. As these technologies continue to move forward, there are virtually no limits to human spaceflight and robotic exploration.

While the world has waited since the Apollo lunar program for the next "giant leap," these critical innovations, most of which are within our grasp with today's technology, will change the way we live, both in space and on Earth. A new space age—and with it, a new age of peace and prosperity on Earth, and settlement beyond our planet—can be ours.

Speaking with key leaders of the latest space programs and innovations, Pyle shares the excitement and promise of this new era of exploration and economic development. From NASA and the Russian space agency Roscosmos, to emerging leaders in the private sector, Space 2.0 examines the new partnerships that are revolutionizing spaceflight and changing the way we reach for the stars.

About Rod Pyle

Rod Pyle is a space historian who has worked with NASA at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory and the Johnson Space Center. He has written nine books on the history and technology of space exploration and science for major publishers in the U.S., U.K., and Asia. As a journalist, Rod's work has appeared in Space.com, LiveScience.com, the Huffington Post, Popular Science, and many other print and online venues. Rod has also produced documentary programming on spaceflight for The History Channel as well as Discovery Communications. He has written on spaceflight and science for NASA/JPL and Caltech, and authored a guide to executive education for the Johnson Space Center/The Conference Board's Apollo Leadership Experience. Rod speaks frequently on spaceflight and executive development, and is a frequent radio guest with regular appearances on WGN/Chicago, KFI/Los Angeles, and numerous syndicated radio programs. He worked on the TV series Star Trek: Deep Space Nine as a visual effects coordinator for three seasons, and spent a decade at the Griffith Observatory in Los Angeles. Rod is a graduate of Stanford University and the Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, California, and a member of the National Space Society, the Author's Guild, the National Association of Science Writers, and the Producer's Guild of America.

Reviews

Goodreads review by David on April 28, 2019

This is a pretty good book but not what I was expecting or hoping for. If you don’t follow the current status of the space industry it has a lot of information and will bring you up to speed on the major corporate and international players, as well as a little bit of the background on how we got to......more

Goodreads review by Chris on March 09, 2020

I have been reading these types of books for 25 years, let me summarize. Space is awesome and we need to do more everything in it, we are always 10+ years out from it happening. Nothing really new.......more

Goodreads review by Matthew on July 30, 2021

As I write these words in the summer of 2021, it's an intriguing time in the history of space flight. In the past month, Sir Richard Branson and Jeff Bezos have carried out their first space tourism sub-orbital flights via their respective companies, Virgin Galactic and Blue Origin. Also, it's been......more

Goodreads review by Robert on April 08, 2021

One of the best space books I've ever read! Space 2.0 is a fantastic tale of where we were in space, we we are, and where we are going. The books is wonderfully illustrated with actual space pictures and beautiful artist renditions. Rod Pyle's writing style is easy to follow and rarely gets boring. P......more

Goodreads review by Yzabel on April 23, 2019

[I received a copy of this book through NetGalley, in exchange for an honest review.] As a NetGalley ARC, I got a digital copy, but getting a printed one is very, very tempting, since the book contains plenty of beautiful pictures: from archives, from “current” events (taken during SpaceX launches, f......more

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