![]() ![]() He follows four companies - Astra, Firefly, Planet Labs and Rocket Lab - as they’re vying against each other. Vance, the author of a biography of SpaceX founder Elon Musk and a writer at Bloomberg Businessweek, is well-positioned to tell the story of the modern fight for the skies. Tom Wolfe (1930-2018) was one of the founders of the New Journalism movement and the author of such contemporary classics as The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test, The Right Stuff, and Radical Chic & Mau-Mauing the Flak Catchers, as well as the novels The Bonfire of the Vanities, A Man in Full, and I Am Charlotte Simmons. The characters behind this new fight to dominate the skies are just as interesting as the ones Wolfe wrote about decades ago. ![]() In “When the Heavens Went on Sale: The Misfits and Geniuses Racing to Put Space Within Reach,” Ashlee Vance writes about a new kind of space race marked by private companies launching rockets and putting a massive number of satellites into orbit. “When the Heavens Went on Sale: The Misfits and Geniuses Racing to Put Space Within Reach,” by Ashlee Vance (Ecco)ĭuring the space race of the 1960s that was chronicled by Tom Wolfe in “The Right Stuff,” the era was personified by larger-than-life heroes like John Glenn, Gus Grissom and Alan Shepard. This cover image released by Ecco shows "When the Heavens Went on Sale: The Misfits and Geniuses Racing to Put Space Within Reach" by Ashlee Vance. Tom Wolfe at his very best' (The New York Times Book Review), The Right Stuff is the basis for the 1983 Oscar Award-winning film of the same name and the 8-part Disney+ TV mini-series. Yes: its high time for a de-romanticized, de-mythified, close-up retelling of the U.S. ![]()
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