Liftoff: Elon Musk and the Desperate Early Days That Launched SpaceX

"A colorful page-turner." —Walter Isaacson, New York Times Book Review

"As important a book on space as has ever been written." —Homer Hickam, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Rocket Boys

The dramatic inside story of the historic flights that launched SpaceX—and Elon Musk—from a shaky start-up into the world’s leading-edge rocket company.

SpaceX has enjoyed a miraculous decade. Less than 20 years after its founding, it boasts the largest constellation of commercial satellites in orbit, ...