Seven billionaires and one big problem -- Big telescopes, hot rodders, and librarians -- Gateses, Jobses, and the laureates' lemma -- Build big, build many, or use it again -- Small market, small payload, but not a toy -- Myths, mistrust, and trust -- The pitch -- The business plan -- Mazes, stop cords, and skunk workers -- Fuel tanks, heat shields, and fire walls -- Balloon tanks, fracture mechanics, and friction stir welding -- Enthusiasm bubbles, ejections, and expander cycles -- Gasoline, alcohol, kerosene, or liquid methane -- Design reviews, prototypes, and parawings -- Guidance, navigation, and control -- Webb suit, hard suit, space suit -- Markets, philosophy, techniques, and approaches -- Rockets, jets, and soft landings -- Pilots, payloads, and passengers -- Mooncars, monks, and monasteries -- Aliens, cheetahs, and archea -- Halfway to everywhere -- First stage, first flight -- Stop the production line! -- Earth below us -- Money, manufacturing, and marketing -- Always room for improvement -- Epilogue I Space is finally a place -- Epilogue II Mars for the many.
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