Bibliographic information:
Author: Brendan Rosseau, Matthew Weinzierl
Narrated by: William Sarris
Release date: February 25, 2025
Audiobook Duration: 9 h 9 min
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BOOK DESCRIPTION: Endorsed by top leaders and voices in the space industry and beyond, including:
- Kevin Weil – Chief Product Officer of OpenAI, former executive at Planet, Instagram, and Twitter
- Charles F. “Charlie” Bolden Jr. – former NASA Administrator, astronaut, and U.S. Marine Corps Major General
- Kathryn Lueders – General Manager of Starbase at SpaceX, former NASA Associate Administrator
- Eric Berger – Senior Space Editor at Ars Technica, and author of Liftoff and Reentry
- Scott Pace – Director of the Space Policy Institute at the George Washington University; former Executive Secretary of the National Space Council
- Christian Davenport – Reporter at The Washington Post and author of Space Barons
- Ashlee Vance – Author of When the Heavens Went on Sale, reporter at Bloomberg Businessweek
- Dan Hastings – Head of Aeronautics & Astronautics Department at MIT
- Dava Newman – Professor of Aeronautics at MIT, former NASA Deputy Administrator
Your guide – using the compelling stories of changemakers and the tools of economics – to the transformation and future possibilities of the business and economics of space.
Space is a place of unparalleled possibility for humanity, and it’s undergoing a revolution. A wave of companies led by gutsy entrepreneurs are unlocking opportunities that fire the imagination and open up new business models. No, it’s not hotels on Mars or day trips to orbit (yet), but it’s an awe-inspiring transformation driven by innovative technologies, creative approaches, hard work, and – for the first time – market forces. Above all, this revolution is uncovering the simple but unfamiliar truth that space is a place: a place where countries, markets, and each of us can play a vital role in realizing some of our biggest, boldest dreams.
But we won’t succeed through dreams alone. The space economy is just that—an economy—governed by the same laws of supply and demand that apply here on Earth. The authors, who teach a highly popular course on the topic at Harvard Business School, bring the revolution in space to life through players you know—like SpaceX and Blue Origin—and many you may not, like Astroscale, founded by a Japanese IT executive who quit his job to start a company to clean up space debris. They also bring to bear fundamental tools from economics to understand how the market in space is forming, how it’s fast becoming a source of value for businesses across industries and for society as a whole, and how we can best ensure that its growth benefits us all.
With clarity and rigor, Weinzierl and Rosseau get past the breathless hype to explain what’s real, what’s not, what comes next, and how you can be part of it.