Financing the New Space Industry Breaking Free of Gravity and Government Support /

• Main Author: McCurdy, Howard E. (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Pivot, 2019.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2019.
• Series: Palgrave Studies in the History of Science and Technology
• Subjects: History.; United States-History.; Finance-History.; Space sciences.; History of Science.; US History.; Financial History.; Space Sciences (including Extraterrestrial Physics, Space Exploration and Astronautics).

This Palgrave Pivot investigates the efforts of five aerospace companies-SpaceX, Blue Origin, Virgin Galactic, Orbital Sciences, and the Boeing Company-to launch their entry into the field of commercial space transportation. Can private sector firms raise enough capital to end the usual dependence o...