#38 The Space Barons: Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, and the Quest to Colonize the Cosmos

Some fifty years after the advent of the space age. No one had ever flown a rocket past the edge of space and landed it vertically. Now it had been performed twice in less than a month. The sight of the booster standing on terra firma, scorched but triumphant.

And offered a hope for another Apollo eleven moment. The next giant leap Many had felt they were promised, but had never come. For decades the first stages of rockets were ditched into the ocean after powering their payloads to space. To Musk and Bezos.

This is an incredible waste. Like throwing away an airplane after flying from New York to Los Angeles. Now they had shown that rockets could fly not just up But back down. Landing with precision and reigniting interest in human space.

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