The Space Business, Andrew May
The Space Business, Andrew May
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The Space Business
From Hotels in Orbit to Mining the Moon

Author: Andrew May

Narrator: Oliver Hunt

Unabridged: 4 hr 42 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 10/05/2021

Synopsis

Even before Apollo 11 landed on the Moon, private companies were exploiting space via communication satellites—a sector that is seeing exponential growth in the internet age. In human spaceflight, too, commercialization is making itself felt. Billionaire entrepreneurs Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, and Richard Branson have long trumpeted plans to make space travel a possibility for ordinary people, and those ideas are inching ever closer to reality. At the same time, other companies plan to mine the Moon for helium-3 and asteroids for precious metals. Popular-science writer Andrew May takes an entertaining, in-depth look at the triumphs and heroic failures of our quixotic quest to commercialize the final frontier.

About Andrew May

Andrew May is a freelance writer and science consultant. He has written on subjects as diverse as the physical sciences, military technology, British history, and the paranormal. His recent books include pocket-sized biographies of Newton and Einstein, an eye-opening study of the relationship between pseudoscience and science fiction, and Destination Mars and Cosmic Impact in the Hot Science series.

About Oliver Hunt

Oliver Hunt is a versatile voiceover artist with experience in theater productions and public speaking. He enjoys bringing books to life and creating engaging narration for both fiction and nonfiction alike. He currently resides in the United Kingdom.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Brian

When I was young, space travel was very exciting because science fiction was becoming reality. First there were people in space and then the landings on the Moon. However, there was one big difference between what I read in SF and what was happening on the news. Fictional space travel was largely a......more

Goodreads review by Clare

I have enjoyed this book. Anyone who has been reading more science based SF and wants to know how soon we will have space hotels and lunar colonies, will want to grab this look at our progress and possibilities. The early chapters include some maths about rocket launches but you can skip over this a......more

Goodreads review by Candace

I went into the book thinking that it was going to be about exploitation of space or anti-capitalistic ventures in space, but I finished the book with at least some perspective shift. So much of what we do on earth today relies on at least some space use (think satellites), and there are some that s......more

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