The Cosmos is Closer: How Elon Musk and SpaceX Engineers Streamlined Space Flights

This is a book about a company that revolutionized the concept of what space exploration should be. About the people who, without any margin for error, achieved the impossible. And about a man whose ideas simultaneously inspire and irritate, but invariably drive the world forward.
Twenty years ago, SpaceX was a small startup, unable to launch even one rocket. Today, it is a corporation that annually sends over a hundred missions into space, a global leader, and the main accelerator of technological revolution in the industry. How did this become possible? The author of the book has spent dozens of hours conversing with engineers, managers, and veterans of SpaceX—people who launched Falcon 1 from Kwajalein Atoll, experienced Falcon 9 failures, built Dragon, debated, made mistakes, and tried again—until they created the world's first fully reusable rocket.
Musk is at the core of this story. He demands the impossible, acts quickly, without committees and endless meetings, makes loud mistakes, but it is his vision that shaped SpaceX into what we know it as today.
This book is about breakthroughs that initially seemed absurd, then unattainable, and later became the industry standard. About how SpaceX managed to maintain the audacity of a startup while becoming a giant. And about why the most exciting things in space are still ahead.