On October 1, the Museum of Flight will host a special book talk featuring Washington Post space reporter Christian Davenport and GeekWire science writer Alan Boyle. The event will highlight Davenport’s forthcoming book, Rocket Dreams: Musk, Bezos, and the Inside Story of the New, Trillion-Dollar Space Race, set to be released on September 16. Drawing on years of reporting and interviews with more than a hundred sources, including Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, and key executives at Blue Origin, Davenport chronicles the high-stakes competition between private space companies and their impact on humanity’s future off Earth. The evening promises a rare insider’s view of the new space race, with stories from boardrooms, private jets, and rocket launches. The program begins at 7 p.m., with “pay what you can” ticket options of $15, $25, $50, and $100. For more information, click HERE.
“Rocket Dreams brings readers into the board rooms and onto the private jets of the key people who brought about a spaceflight revolution over the last decade. Richly reported, it tells the essential story of how a few NASA leaders and two billionaires pushed the government to change the way humans access space forever,” said Eric Berger, author of Liftoff and Reentry.
About Christian Davenport and About Alan Boyle Christian Davenport is a staff writer at The Washington Post, covering NASA and the space industry, and author of The Space Barons. He has been part of reporting teams that were finalists for the Pulitzer Prize three times and has received an Emmy award for coverage of SpaceX’s first human spaceflight mission on the Discovery and Science Channels. Alan Boyle is the creator of Cosmic Log, a contributor to GeekWire and Universe Today, and the author of The Case for Pluto: How a Little Planet Made a Big Difference. He is a past president of the Council for the Advancement of Science Writing and a leading voice in science journalism.
