Space Economy
Launch costs fell by an order of magnitude and a small investable sector appeared. The book literature is almost entirely narrative history of SpaceX and its rivals; the market sizing lives in bank and Bryce Tech reports.
9 books
Start here
- When the Heavens Went on SaleAshlee Vance, 2023
- LiftoffEric Berger, 2021
- ReentryEric Berger, 2024
Books 9
Ashlee Vance · 2023 · Four small-launch startups and the economics that killed most of them.
T2 Reentry
Eric Berger · 2024 · Falcon 9 reuse: the cost change the entire sector is now built on.
T3 Ignition!
John Drury Clark · 1972 · Insider history of liquid rocket propellant development
Julian Guthrie · 2016 · The Ansari X Prize and the origin of commercial human spaceflight.
Tim Fernholz · 2018 · The same story told with more attention to the government contracts.
Christian Davenport · 2018 · Musk, Bezos, Branson and Allen; how private launch got funded.
T3 Liftoff
Eric Berger · 2021 · SpaceX's near-death early years, reported from the inside.
Lori Garver · 2022 · Insider account of moving NASA to fixed-price commercial contracts.
Robert C. Jacobson · 2020 · One of the few attempts at a survey of the commercial sector.