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    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

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The New Space Race: How Are Private Companies Changing Space Travel, the New Space Race Explained for Beginners

The New Space Race: How Are Private Companies Changing Space Travel, the New Space Race Explained for Beginners

Publishing, Yb-Nayon

Paperback

Series: Space Exploration & Missions for Adults, Book 2

Aviation InstructionAstronomy & SpacePhysics

ISBN13: 9798173513748
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Sep 11 2026
Pages: 136
Weight: 0.42
Height: 0.29 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
The space industry has been turned upside down. For sixty years, reaching orbit cost $10,000-$20,000 per kilogram and was the exclusive domain of governments. Then a handful of entrepreneurs - armed with Silicon Valley capital and a refusal to accept the old economics - changed everything. The New Space Race tells the full story of how SpaceX, Blue Origin, Rocket Lab, and dozens of other commercial players dismantled a Cold War-era industry, why reusable rockets represent the most consequential shift in spaceflight history, and what satellite constellations like Starlink are already doing to global connectivity. It examines the fierce geopolitical competition between the United States and China over the Moon's south pole, the rise of private human spaceflight from space tourism to the first private spacewalk, and the extraordinary ambition - and genuine obstacles - standing between humanity and a crewed mission to Mars. Written for curious adults with no prior technical background, this book explains the economics, the engineering, the politics, and the personalities driving the most consequential transformation in the history of space exploration.

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