An Incredible Modern Story Well Told

The book we've all been waiting for. I've been deeply engaged in this industry since the start of the incredible story that Davenport tells and I can say that this is the most comprehensive and professional treatment of the commercial spaceflight revolution to date. The author is a professional reporter and a fine wordsmith who understands his context and characters. He weaves a tale of adventure, excess and excitement on the final frontier that will keep even non-space cadets enthralled. This is a character based study and is not particularly distracted by the technologies or the data. You won't find the seconds of ISP rating on the latest SpaceX second stage engine configuration or the coefficient of drag on Virgin's VSS Unity. What Davenport does in nail the big personalities and unusual motivations that drive this generations boldest entrepreneurs to go where none have gone before.

The narration is also excellent. Collyer conveys the tension and enthusiasm of the story without distraction. He gets the names and technical pronunciations correct as well (a thing that always bugs me in tech books).

"Space Barrons" is a great summer read for anyone but it is a must-listen for any aspiring Jeff Bezos, Richard Branson or Elon Musk. I hope they all download it and are motivated to do impossibly great things someday, themselves.

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Boring Book on Exciting Topic

This book was 2-3 times longer than it needed to be, which means too much filler and an overall boring experience. Bummer.

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Great

Well-document content with a good reader making the whole a captivating audiobook! Highly recommended.

Great book, well written, good narator

This is a great book on the trials and tribulations the private sector has faced building rockets. Mostly about Musk, Bezos, Branson and some others.

Loved it

A great history of the private space business sector. I definitely recommend. Have it read at 1.35x

Book has good summary but lacks more in depth research

Book provides a good brief summary of space companies and challenges it faced. This book lacks more research, work into future. Most of events mentioned in the book would be known to someone who followed space news or social media.

Nonetheless a great book for someone to understand about emergence of private industries. It would be exciting to see what lies ahead in space entrepreneurship where only national governments have been a player so far.

Very informative and educational in a fun way!

Very cool book. It was extremely insightful on where #spacetravel is and where it is going.

The wonderful thing is, that private sector dreamers like (Bezos, Branson and Musk) are reigniting the possibilities of going to space. Making it affordable, reusable and fun!

Breaking through the heavily regulated and controlling government monopoly and cost waste. These folks are building, engineering, and doing.

Fabulous Disruption! They use any failures as a key ingredient to learning, by building it better. You want that continuous experimentation and deployment.

We are are SO far behind in this area, it’s great to see it being pursued so passionately. #julesverne and #hgwells I think would be happy about this.

what a great book

loved it the book had great detail in background from many of the pioneers. It kept my attention the whole way through.

Groundbreaking & Riveting!!

If you love space history you'll love this book! It's unquestionably, an amazing story of personalities entrepreneurship,and battling for positive change in the modern day race to space! I like the way the author juxtaposed the major players, Jeff Bezos, Charles Branson, and Elon Musk in a highly charged struggle for 1st place in the privitazation of space travel and launch operations. Each man had different goals, and styles of leadership, but what a drama! I thoroughly enjoyed this book! One item I found unnecessary was the few, but occasional use of expletives and so I would not let my young sons listen to it. (The author could have used abbreviations here. WTF, etc. ) That being said, the reader does a phenomenal job of voicing the unfolding drama and is easy to listen to even sounding as much like Charles Branson as if the man were talking to you himself! Great stuff!

a great intro to the modern space race

I loved learning about the commercialization of space, it will be fascinating to see how this plays out.