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When the Heavens Went on Sale audiobook
- By: Ashlee Vance
- Narrator: Ashlee Vance
- Category: Business & Economics, Entrepreneurship
- Length: 18 hours 19 minutes
- Publisher: HarperAudio
- Publish date: May 09, 2023
- Language: English
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When the Heavens Went on Sale Audiobook Summary
A momentous look at the private companies building a revolutionary new economy in space, from the New York Times bestselling author of Elon Musk
In When the Heavens Went on Sale, Ashlee Vance illuminates our future and unveils the next big technology story of our time: welcome to the Wild West of aerospace engineering and its unprecedented impact on our lives.
With the launch of SpaceX’s Falcon 1 rocket in 2008, Silicon Valley began to realize that the universe itself was open for business. Now, Vance tells the remarkable, unfolding story of this frenzied intergalactic land grab by following four pioneering companies—Astra, Firefly, Planet Labs, and Rocket Lab—as they build new space systems and attempt to launch rockets and satellites into orbit by the thousands.
With the public fixated on the space tourism being driven by the likes of Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, and Richard Branson, these new, scrappy companies arrived with a different set of goals: to make rocket and satellite launches fast and cheap, thereby opening Earth’s lower orbit for business. Vance has had a front-row seat and singular access to this peculiar and unprecedented moment in history, and he chronicles it all in full color: the top-secret launch locations, communes, gun-toting bodyguards, drugs, espionage investigations, and multimillionaires guzzling booze to dull the pain as their fortunes disappear.
Through immersive and intimate reporting, When the Heavens Went on Sale reveals the spectacular chaos of the new business of space, and what happens when the idealistic, ambitious minds of Silicon Valley turn their unbridled vision toward the limitless expanse of the stars. This is the tale of technology’s most pressing and controversial revolution, as told through fascinating characters chasing unimaginable stakes in the race to space.
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Ashlee Vance is the narrator of When the Heavens Went on Sale audiobook that was written by Ashlee Vance
Ashlee Vance is the New York Times bestselling author of Elon Musk and a feature writer at Bloomberg Businessweek. He’s also the host of Hello World, a travel show that centers on inventors and scientists all over the planet. Previously, he worked as a reporter for The New York Times, The Economist, and The Register.
About the Author(s) of When the Heavens Went on Sale
Ashlee Vance is the author of When the Heavens Went on Sale
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When the Heavens Went on Sale Full Details
| Narrator | Ashlee Vance |
| Length | 18 hours 19 minutes |
| Author | Ashlee Vance |
| Category | |
| Publisher | HarperAudio |
| Release date | May 09, 2023 |
| ISBN | 9780062998910 |
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The publisher of the When the Heavens Went on Sale is HarperAudio. The imprint is HarperAudio. It is supplied by HarperAudio. The ISBN-13 is 9780062998910.
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